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Over the past two centuries, institutions of early childhood education (henceforth ECE) have developed all over the Western world. There have been considerable national and regional differences in the nature and pace of these developments, however, and up to about 1970 those variations did not in any systematic way correlate with changes in the economy or the family (cp. Bahle 2009; Willekens 2009b). It is only as regards public care for children under three that an abundant social policy literature shows a connection between the rise in female labour market participation and the availability of such care (see e.g. De Henau et al. 2007). This chapter however focuses on the development of institutions whose main purpose is to educate children below school age, regardless of whether such institutions also enable mothers to do paid work.
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Willekens, H. (2015). Religious Cleavages, the School Struggle and the Development of Early Childhood Education in Belgium, France and the Netherlands. In: Willekens, H., Scheiwe, K., Nawrotzki, K. (eds) The Development of Early Childhood Education in Europe and North America. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137441980_3
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