abstract: 'In recent years, several middle-income countries, including Chile,

  Mexico and Uruguay, have increased the availability of early childhood

  education and care (ECEC) services. These developments have received

  little scholarly attention so far, resulting in the (surely unintended)

  impression that Latin American social policy is tied to a familialist

  track, when in reality national and regional trends are more varied and

  complex. This article looks at recent efforts to expand ECEC services in

  Chile and Mexico. In spite of similar concerns over low female labour

  force participation and child welfare, the approaches of the two

  countries to service expansion have differed significantly. While the

  Mexican programme aims to kick-start and subsidize home-and

  community-based care provision, with a training component for

  childminders, the Chilean programme emphasizes the expansion of

  professional ECEC services provided in public institutions. By comparing

  the two programmes, this article shows that differences in policy design

  have important implications in terms of the opportunities the programmes

  are able to create for women and children from low-income families, and

  in terms of the programmes'' impacts on gender and class inequalities. It

  also ventures some hypotheses about why the two countries may have

  chosen such different routes.'
affiliation: Staab, S (Corresponding Author), Univ Sheffield, Dept Polit, Northumberland
  Rd, Sheffield S10 2TU, S Yorkshire, England.
author: Staab, Silke and Gerhard, Roberto
author-email: s.staab@sheffield.ac.uk
author_list:
- family: Staab
  given: Silke
- family: Gerhard
  given: Roberto
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2011.01720.x
eissn: 1467-7660
files: []
issn: 0012-155X
journal: DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE
keywords-plus: SOCIAL-POLICY; STATE; CITIZENSHIP; POLITICS; POVERTY
language: English
month: JUL
number: 4, SI
number-of-cited-references: '60'
pages: 1079-1107
papis_id: 48f820347c35a858e63b8490a8fff58b
ref: Staab2011puttingtwo
times-cited: '14'
title: Putting Two and Two Together? Early Childhood Education, Mothers' Employment
  and Care Service Expansion in Chile and Mexico
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000294921400009
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volume: '42'
web-of-science-categories: Development Studies
year: '2011'