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Andrea Doucet speaks with CBC on the legacy of the 1981 Canadian Union of Postal Workers strike and the impact on well-paid inclusive parental leave in Canada
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In the News — September 6, 2024
Sophie Mathieu on workplace flexibility and back to school
Sophie Mathieu discusses how workplace flexibility can have a significant impact on parents with school aged children.
In the News — September 5, 2024
Gordon Cleveland on $10-a-day childcare versus financial assistance
Gordon Cleveland has authored a report for The Prosperity Project, entitled “Early Childhood Education and Care in Canada 2023”, which finds that Canadian parents have a strong preference for affordable, $10-a-day licensed child care over individual payments delivered to them from the government.
In the News — August 28, 2024
The Childcare Resource and Research Unit releases Early Childhood Education and Care in Canada 2023
This report focuses on regulated child care, provincial/territorial level information on kindergarten, First Nations, Metis, and Inuit child care, space and enrolment statistics, parent fees, the child care workforce, ELCC funding, and pertinent demographic data.
In the News — June 27, 2024
Martha Friendly Awarded the Order of Canada as an Officer
Martha Friendly has been awarded the Order of Canada as an Officer for propelling the importance of child care not only for the benefits it accrues to children, but also for its necessity for Canadian families, and particularly for women’s equality.
In the News — June 21, 2024
Kim de Laat’s article nominated for the 2024 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Research Excellence in Work and Family
Kim de Laat’s article “Remote Work and Post-Bureaucracy: Unintended Consequences of Work Design for Gender Inequality” was selected as a nominee for the 2024 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Research Excellence in Work and Family. This award is presented to author(s) of the best research paper published in a given year.
In the News — May 23, 2024
Peter Moss publishes book on Early Childhood in the Anglosphere
Written by two leading international experts, Early Childhood in the Anglosphere offers a unique comparison of early childhood education and care services, and parenting leave, across seven high-income Anglophone countries. Peter Moss and Linda Mitchell explore what these systems have in common, including the dominance of ‘childcare’ services, widespread privatisation and marketisation, and weak parenting leave. They highlight the substantial failings of these systems, and the causes and consequences of these failings.
In the News — May 21, 2024
Armine Yalnizyan receives the prestigious biennial Galbraith Prize in Economics from the Progressive Economics Forum
The prize recognizes her lifetime efforts to build a better economy. She accepted the prize and delivered a lecture at the Canadian Economics Association on May 21 at Toronto Metropolitan University
In the News — May 15, 2024
Sylvia Fuller on daylong childcare in BC
Sylvia Fuller talks to BC Today about daylong childcare in BC and the importance of after-school care to women in the workforce.
In the News — April 29, 2024
Susan Prentice on work-life balance and fertility rates
“Women increasingly are choosing to have fewer children. Canada is not the only country — this is a pattern that we see all around the world as women’s education rates rise, employment rates rise and live births fall,” she says.
“In general, we know from decades of social science research that it’s women who change their life patterns much more than men to accommodate work and family strains.”
In the News — April 4, 2024
Karen Foster awarded SSHRC Sustainable Agriculture Grant
Karen Foster has been selected to lead a $1.9-million initiative supported by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to develop a new national research network that supports an equitable transition to net-zero in Canadian agriculture and its periphery industries.