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Fernández Lozano, Irina

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    Access to early childcare and education in contemporary Europe. Who is being left out?
    (Emerald, 2025-12-01) Fernández Lozano, Irina; Castellanos Serrano, Cristina; Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España)
    Childcare services are related to positive outcomes for children's development, female labour participation, and gender equality. This chapter presents an overview of access to early childhood education and care (ECEC) systems up to three years old in 31 European countries (all EU countries -except Malta - plus Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the Republic of Serbia) using data from the EU-SILC between 2010 and 2022. The chapter aims to answer questions related to 1) the evolution of access rates by age in recent years, considering the coherence between 2030 EU targets for ECEC enrolment and employment, 2) the different levels of access rates and intensity (weekly hours per child) prevalent in each country and 3) the bias related to the socioeconomic characteristics of the children who access (and do not access) to the ECEC system in the different countries. Using the 2022 revision of the Barcelona targets, countries have been classified according to their achievement concerning access and intensity in four groups. An access bias by social origin has been identified in all countries (except for Denmark, and relatively reduced in Iceland, Luxembourg, Sweden and Greece). The access bias more intense are for children with mothers with low educational achievement, followed by those with fathers in the same situation (which are actually the same in most countries, due to homogamous matching patterns). In general, the higher the ECEC participation and use intensity, the lower the access bias for children with disadvantaged conditions. European policies that boost intense use and universal access to ECEC and coordination with parental leave systems (based on gender-equal participation in care at home) are essential to guarantee children's wellbeing and gender equality. This would widen childcare options for all types of families, especially for the less privileged ones.
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    Políticas de cuidado y educación infantil en España: propuestas de mejora sin olvidar la igualdad de género
    (Dykinson, 2024-05-01) Castellanos Serrano, Cristina; Fernández Lozano, Irina; Lapuerta, Irene
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    Caring fathers in Europe: Toward universal caregiver families?
    (Wiley, 2022-12-30) Martínez Pastor, Juan Ignacio; Jurado Guerrero, Teresa; Fernández Lozano, Irina; Castellanos Serrano, Cristina
    Increasingly, men are challenging the assumption that care is a feminine task and are involving themselves in childcare and the care of dependent adults. However, this does not necessarily have consequences for their work, as they very rarely make costly adaptations in their working lives. In this study, we propose a definition of a man in care (MIC) as a working father who, in order to meet care needs, has adapted his working life in a way that potentially entails a financial penalty. We analyze the prevalence of men in care among men living with children below the age of 15 across the EU-27 plus Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, and the UK using recent representative data (the European Labour Survey and its 2018 ad hoc module on work-life balance). We find that although the number of men engaging in costly work adaptations is still very low when compared to their female counterparts, the characteristics of these men can be clearly outlined: they have a non-manual occupation (managers excluded), they have temporary contracts or are self-employed, they are partnered to women who hold jobs of 40 or more hours a week and have a high educational attainment, and they work in family-friendly companies. Also, at the context level, the prevalence of MIC is clearly elated to gender equality and values. However, we do not find evidence of any country having reached the universal caregiver model proposed by Nancy Fraser, including those with more advanced gender and welfare regimes.