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October 15, 2025Social Indicators ResearchOpen Access

The Elephant in the Family Policy Room: How Care Culture Influences the Effects of Public Childcare on Women’s Labor Market Participation in Europe

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EPEmmanuele PavoliniEBElisa BriniSSStefani Scherer

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Overview

This analysis explores how public childcare influences women's labor market participation, highlighting cultural contexts and gender equality implications.

Key Points

  • Increasing availability of public childcare significantly boosts women's full-time employment in traditional gender care cultures.
  • The analysis shows that cultural norms affect the success of policies promoting gender equality in labor markets.
  • Integrating individual-level employment data with regional public childcare information uncovers important insights.
  • Evaluating childcare policy outcomes requires understanding the interplay between cultural values and structural conditions.

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Pavolini et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68f01110f081da0584b569a9https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-025-03719-2
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