[Child Care Policy in the Workplace and its impact on the Performance of Women]

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1. O'Connell, P.J., and Russell, H. (2005). Equality at Work? Workplace Equality, Flexible Working Arrangements and the Quality of Work. The Equality Authority: Dublin.

The research focuses on the flexible working arrangement for women. It discusses the quality in work taking into account the social policies and the child care provisions as they are important to retain the female workforce.

2. Teghtsoonian, K. (1996). Promises, promises: "choices for women" in Canadian and American child care policy debates. Feminist Studies, 22(1), 119-119.

This article presents the choice of women n in terms of till when to work and when to prefer family over work..

3. Siobhan E. Austen and Elisa R. Birch, (2000), Family Responsibilities and Women's Working Lives, Women's Economic Policy Analysis Unit Curtin University of Technology, Women's Economic Policy Analysis Unit

This article examines the work and family responsibilities of women and how they balance both. The highlights of the economic and social policies are also viewed that help women balance their family and wok lives.

4. Waldfogel, J. (2001). International policies toward parental leave and child care. The Future of Children, 11(1), 98-111.

The article highlights the international child care policies that have been successfully undertaken by the organization. It also determines how well the job performances of women are influenced by these provisions.

5. Mr Leigh Funston, (2008) Retaining Women in the Workforce, Australian Institute of Management, pp. 3-10,

This paper analyses female work force retention and the strategies that organization undertake to provide better organizational support in easing out their work responsibilities. The family preference of women is most emphasized in this article.

6. Brandon P, Temple J, (2006) Family Provision at the workplace and their Relationship to Absenteeism, Retention, and Productivity of Workers: Timely Evidence from Prior Data, Australian Journal of Social Issues.

This paper gives an account of the family provision at the workplace. The emphasis is given to the women worker's productivity, and retention. This study presents the key challenges that the female workers face in terms of family provisions.

7. Baldock, C. V., & Mulligan, D. (1999). Restructuring and women workers in Australian home care. Resources for Feminist Research, 27(3), 13-26

This paper takes into account the women workers in the Australian home care in the perspective of providing them a work and family life integration.

8. Bainbridge, J., Marcia, K. M., & Waldfogel, J. (2003). Child care policy reform and the employment of single mothers*. Social Science Quarterly, 84(4), 771-791.

This paper focuses on the child care policy reform for the single mothers and how the reform has been helping the mother seek a balance between their job and family preferences.

9. Lewis, J. (2000). A mother's job: The history of day care, 1890-1960 / children's Interests/Mothers' right: The shaping of america's child care policy. The Journal of American History, 86(4), 1805-1806.

It discusses this choice in the context of the organizational policies and how well women find these policies feasible for their work ...