Factors contributing to the decline in childcare services for children under the age of three in the Czech Republic

Chapter in monograph

Hašková, Hana. 2010. „Factors contributing to the decline in childcare services for children under the age of three in the Czech Republic.“ Pp. 4-20 in A. Scharle (ed.). Manka goes to work: Public childcare in the Visegrad countries 1989–2009. Budapešť: Budapest Institute for Policy Analysis. ISBN 978-963-06-8850-5.

The author studies changes in availability and use of daycare services in Czech society in context of changes in female laborforce participation, gender relations, family policy and public debates on childcare, population decline and economic prosperity.The author claims that the current decline in daycare services is influenced not only by current socioeconomic trends but is truly embedded in the history of daycare services in the region.