Problem
Lack of child care for working parents
Other Names:
Inadaptation of work to family needs Nature:
Few USA or European companies have systematic policies for dealing with today's newly emerged norm of working parents with need for outside child-care. It is still common for women to curtail employment because of child bearing while men do not. Women thereby take less demanding, lower paying jobs, and it is often the case that the structures, habits, values and atmospheres of work become organized around the availability of those people without first-line responsibility for children. Incidence:
Even though Sweden has liberal maternity and paternity leaves, 85% of all leaves are taken by women, which results in corporations viewing women workers as being out of the mainstream in terms of promotion and career advancement. France has a strong national system of public child care, which has enabled many women to work, but there is still strong occupational segregation and no legal means to pursue equal opportunity goals. Germany has generous national benefits but few private efforts to adapt work to family needs. In Russia in 1992, the Parliament and some city governments are dismantling the once elaborate Soviet system of child care. The Moscow City Council, for example, proposes to close about a third of the city's day-care centres within two years. Broader Problems:
Unplanned family needsLack of child welfare institutionsDenial of right to maternity leaveInadequate child day-care facilitiesRestricted state support of the familyDiscrimination against working mothersInadequate maternity protection in employment Narrower Problems:
After-school unsupervised children Related Problems:
Absenteeism Aggravates:
Work-family discordPoverty-stricken womenUninvolved working parentsFamily-based production patternsInadequate response to societal needsDiscrimination in the employment of women with family responsibilitiesInequality of employment opportunity Strategies:
Reconciling professional and family lifeOrganizing working mother child-careStructuring care of workersProviding sufficient child care for working parentsAbstaining from child care for working parents Subject(s):
Society → InfantsSociety → Family
Society → Maternity, paternity
Social Activity → Work
Amenities → Living conditions
Societal Problems → Scarcity
Health Care → Care
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST