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If we act in these areas -- minimum wage, family leave, child care, health care and the safety of our children -- we will begin to meet our generation's historic responsibility to strengthen our families for the 21st century.
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Which brings us to the second proposed solution for the hours gap: generous family-leave and child-care policies.
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It may be a combination of ineffective government family leave and child-care policies, less willingness to individually assert themselves, and employer discrimination.
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That means offering payment and promotion on merit, more temporary and part-time work, and better child care, maternity leave and job prospects for their female staff.
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He made a string of lavish promises to cut child-care costs, guarantee kindergarten places, extend maternity and paternity leave and even hand out free fruit to schoolchildren.
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They looked at parental leave, the protection of part-time work, and public spending on child care.
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But the biggest changes a child-care tax credit, and the New Deal for lone parents encourage parents to work and leave someone else to raise their children.
ECONOMIST: The family
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Extensive research in 16 OECD countries has shown that there is a strong correlation between high female employment rates and large government cash transfers to families, generous replacement pay during parental leave, the availability of plenty of part-time work and lots of formal child care.
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