Changing Women's Lives: Child Care Policy in Ireland

Jo Murphy-Lawless

Feminist Economics, 2000, vol. 6, issue 1, 89-94

Abstract: Child care as a policy issue has been forced to the center of the national planning agenda in Ireland with the report of an expert working group on child care. As Ireland has broken into the ranks of wealthy Western economies, Irish women have joined the formal workforce in ever greater numbers, dramatically breaking the traditional ideology of women as childbearers and homemakers. However, women are now carrying the double burden of work that accompanies the lack of any state policy on child care. This article traces this recent history of the feminizing of the Irish workforce, amidst a fast-changing social context for family life, and the multiple problems confronting the expert working group of securing an adequate range of policies for the provision of child care in a country which has one of the lowest rates of formal state provision in the entire European Union.

Keywords: Ireland; Child Care; Women; Labor Force Participation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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