To Tessa Conroy, an assistant professor of agricultural and applied economics at UW-Madison, that makes child care not so much a women’s issue or family issue as an economic development issue.She said it’s hard to say exactly how many parents might be sitting out the job market because of child care challenges, so she looks at a number she can measure: how many more women would be working if women and men participated in the workforce at the same rate.
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