GNfFCC-2017: Mini-conference on the Global Need for Formal Child Care McGill University Montreal, Canada, August 11, 2017 |
Conference website | http://www.mcgill.ca/popcentre/research/cpd-team-research/conference-global-need-formal-child-care |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gnffcc2017 |
Submission deadline | May 15, 2017 |
One day conference on the Global Need for Formal Child Care
Friday, August 11, 2017
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Call for papers
The need for formal child care is becoming a pressing global challenge. Dramatic economic changes have seen unprecedented rates of women participating in paid market work across the world. However, this fundamental transition in how women organize their lives has not been met by an equally dramatic transition in how children are cared for. Consequently, women across the globe are faced with tough choices regarding the trade-offs between work, personally caring for their children and using often substandard alternative child care arrangements. With much effort focused on improving work opportunities for women, policy efforts regarding child care have lagged.
This mini-conference will bring together stakeholders and scholars to focus on the tensions between women’s work and child care, particularly as they relate to formal child care and women’s outcomes. The event will highlight policy implications of research findings and will be relevant for academics as well as policy-makers and practitioners at local and international levels. We invite research from all disciplinary and methodological perspectives including empirical and theoretical contributions. Research from all geographic areas will be considered, although we are especially interested in work in resource poor settings. Thematic sessions will be determined based on submissions.
To be considered for a presentation at the mini-conference, please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words. In addition to conveying the contribution to knowledge, policy relevance, findings and/or implications, your abstract should note the specific setting in question.
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This call for papers is now CLOSED
Contact
All questions about the conference should be emailed to Heidi Hoernig. All questions about abstract submissions should be emailed to Professor Sarah Brauner-Otto