New open-access research by Hilarius Kofi Kofinti, Stephanie Fearon & RC/W Principal Investigator Andrea Doucet examines how Black fatherhood has been studied in Canada and the U.S.—and calls for deeper community involvement in research. Read free: doi.org/10.3390/socs...

Workplace culture matters for whether fathers feel able to take parental leave. In a new Benefits Canada article, Andrea Doucet discusses barriers that can prevent Canadian fathers from taking leave—and why policy design must be supported by workplace norms. www.benefitscanada.com/benefits/abs...

Workplace culture key to encouraging fathers to take parental leave: expert | Benefits Canada.com

While more Canadian fathers are taking parental leave, financial barriers and workplace culture can still prevent them from taking more time away from work, says Andrea Doucet, distinguished professor...

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New from Vanier: “Sophie Mathieu – Beyond Birth Rates.” Recorded as part of a McGill/Vanier event on low fertility, the video features Sophie Mathieu, whose work examines gender inequalities, family policy, work-family balance, QPIP & early childhood care. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9TK...

Sophie Mathieu - Beyond Birth Rates

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David Macdonald & Martha Friendly report that five years into Canada’s $10-a-day child care program, fees have fallen dramatically but access to $10/day care remains uneven. Writing for Policy Alternatives they find 11 of 35 cities studied have infant fees at or below $10/day, a significant gap.

The $10-a-day divide: Child care fees in Canada in 2026 | CCPA

After five years of Canada's federal child care program parents are paying less. But most families still pay more than $10 a day

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Check out this new back to school reading list released by the editors of Families, Relationships and Societies, featuring work by our very own PI @andreadoucet.bsky.social! All featured readings are freely available until Oct 31st. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/Jour...

Journal highlights Sociology

Journal highlights Sociology

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We’re pleased to share the launch of Care Leaves and Care Time for All by Andrea Doucet & Peter Moss. Hosted by UCL, with Joan Tronto, Nancy Folbre & Alison Koslowski, the event explores care, time, work & building more caring societies. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5rK...

Care Leaves and Care Time for All | Book Launch with Andrea Doucet & Peter Moss

Join authors Andrea Doucet and Peter Moss for the launch of Care Leaves and Care Time for All: Towards Caring Democracies, Economies, and Worlds, in conversation with Joan Tronto and Nancy Folbre,…

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How does place influence the household division of labour? When researchers study diverse families it’s important to attend to place, i.e. to the size, density and remoteness of the community wherein the household resides.

This research note by Laura Lam provides an excellent overview of recent scholarship from the RC/W’s Kim de Laat and @andreadoucet.bsky.social on the challenges inherent to measuring the distribution of domestic labour from working caregivers. tinyurl.com/58abf98e

What if care was central to how we organise our world? How can leave policies build and sustain caring democracies, economies, and societies? These are questions taken up in "Care Leaves and Care Time for All: Towards Caring Democracies, Economies, and Worlds." www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/care-leave...

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Check out the Vanier Institute of the Family’s new online resource centre! The RC/W is pleased to have contributed to this critical new collection of evidence based resources developed by and for Canadian organizations that engage in family research and policy. tinyurl.com/2s44r4k3

Resource centre - Vanier

Explore the Vanier Institute's open access, plain language resources on families in Canada. Available in diverse formats in English and French.

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Andrea Doucet @andreadoucet.bsky.social & Peter Moss have published a new open access book asking what if care was at the heart of how we organise our societies and economies? It explores how care leave policies can help build and sustain caring democracies, economies, and worlds. buff.ly/x8I6BV2

Care Leaves and Care Time for All

Care Leaves and Care Time for All - Towards Caring Democracies, Economies, and Worlds; What if care was at the heart of how we organise our societies and economies? This timely book issues an urgent…

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As the Liberals celebrate their recent bye-election wins it’s a good time to revisit this timely reminder from RC/W Co-Investigator Gordon Cleveland that offers to Prime Minister Carney: child care is vital national infrastructure. theconversation.com/federal-budg...

Federal budget: Mr. Prime Minister, child care is infrastructure too

Child-care expansion should be as high a priority for public capital investment as housing and other infrastructure.

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Are you a lawyer with young children under 3 interested in sharing your experience of parenting while working in law? We are seeking mothers/parents to participate in 30-90 minute interviews for a study investigating how Alberta lawyers experience parenthood. (1/3)

June 3, 9am–10:30am EST Dr. Andrea Doucet and Dr. Peter Moss will be discussing their new book Care Leaves and Care Time for All: Towards Caring Democracies, Economies, and Worlds with Joan Tronto and Nancy Folbre. Registration details are coming soon. Pre order the book here: tinyurl.com/2acfenvt

Care Leaves and Care Time for All

Care Leaves and Care Time for All - Towards Caring Democracies, Economies, and Worlds; What if care was at the heart of how we organise our societies and economies? This timely book issues an urgent…

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RC/W is excited to announce that Mila Kingsbury, Karine Lavergene, Donna Schaffer and Leanne Findlay have published an essay on parental preferences and the demand for childcare in Canadian Public Policy... buff.ly/8oe6Bv8

Parental Preferences and Unmet Demand for Child Care for Children Aged Zero to Five Years in Canada | Canadian Public Policy

The aim of this article was to quantify unmet demand for child care in Canada and identify barriers faced by parents seeking child care. Participants were 30,330 parents who completed the 2023 Canadian Survey on Early Learning and Child Care, a nationally representative survey of children aged 0–5 years living in the provinces. Results suggested that although most Canadian children have parents who would prefer to use non-parental child care, only one-third are participating in care that fully meets their parents’ wishes. Demand for and barriers to child care varied according to socio-demographic characteristics, with certain groups, including parents working non-standard hours, those living outside Quebec, parents of Indigenous children, those with children aged younger than two years, and parents of children in school, more likely to report unmet demand and barriers to care. Meeting the child care needs of these parents may have an impact on parental labour market participation.

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Martha Friendly has been invested into the Order of Canada as an Officer. Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition of child care advocacy. Her passion for universal child care has inspired, ignited, and fuelled the efforts of many.

RC/W Principal Investigator @andreadoucet.bsky.social has a new open access paper on lessons from ecologist Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring, which helped start the environmental movement & offers parallels with contemporary care ethics. Doucet identifies three key lessons:

Ecological issues are care issues and care issues are ecological issues: three lessons for care researchers from Rachel Carson

In contexts of growing care crises and ecological crises, this paper argues that ecological issues are care issues – and care issues are ecological issues. Rooted in a quarter century of research o...

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RC/W Co-Investigator Eva Jewell was recently made a Distinguished Visiting Indigenous Faculty Fellow at Jackman Humanities Institute! Jewell’s work brings an Anishinaabe perspectives & anti-colonial critical lense to the concept of care. buff.ly/VmfBY4b @jhievents.bsky.social

2026-27 Distinguished Visiting Indigenous Faculty Fellow | Jackman Humanities Institute

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Registration is now open! Join us on May 1, 2026, for a full day of learning, dialogue, and connection focused on the power of the early childhood education workforce to drive meaningful systems change. www.oise.utoronto.ca/atkinson/eve... #SI2026 #Workforce #ELCC

We are excited to share this new report from the Childcare Resource & Research Unit! It shows significant progress since 2021/22 when the provinces received funding to develop/implement plans for $10 a day care, though work remains to be done. See the full report here! buff.ly/8GxPSE8 #CWELCC

@unicef.ca recently published an urgent paper on the status of parental leave in Canada showing the dichotomy between the right to parental leave & the reality: it's unavailable for many parents. Working with partners including @gensqueeze.bsky.social & the RC/W @rcwpolicies.bsky.social ...

NEW VIDEOS We’re pleased to share 2 new videos from Waterloo Region. One highlights the benefits of #ExtendedDay for children, families, & educators - the other focuses on partnerships between the Region, school board, & system partners www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #ELCC #SeamlessDay

Extended Day Programs - YouTube

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Costanzo Ranci and LP&R Member Tine Rostgaard’s introductory chapter to Research handbook on social care policy argues that social care has become a distinct, mature policy domain globally. www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/res...

Recent research by RC/W Co-Investigator Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay, "Redefining the Workplace: A Quantitative Examination of Coworking Spaces in Québec," investigates coworking spaces as "third spaces" for professional work.

Redefining the Workplace A Quantitative Examination of Coworking Spaces in Québec

Our research focuses on the role of coworking spaces as “third spaces” for work. It examinines the characteristics of coworkers, the social and physical dimensions of coworking environments, and the…

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The RCW's @kdelaat.bsky.social and @andreadoucet.bsky.social investigate how methodology can shape survey responses. Their study examines how fathers answering surveys on household chores give different answers to the same questions when they are interviewed alongside their partner. buff.ly/5oAe0ga

Saying, Doing, Talking, Listening: A Mixed Methods Study of Fathers’ Involvement in Childcare and Household Work Tasks and Responsibilities - Kim de Laat, Andrea Doucet, 2025

This article examines how methodological approaches shape understandings of domestic responsibilities. Using mixed methods data from Canadian dual-earner househ...

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Unpredictable work schedules are a growing burden for parents. @sylviafuller.bsky.social, Manlin Cai, Richard Petts, @andreadoucet.bsky.social, Anna Kurowska, Donna Lero & Thordis Reimer explore how unpredictable scheduling and gendered expectations influence the domestic division of labour.

Unpredictable Work Schedules and Gender Divisions of Domestic Labor - Sylvia Fuller, Manlin Cai, Richard Petts, Andrea Doucet, Anna Kurowska, Donna Lero, Thordis Reimer, 2025

Unpredictable work schedules dictated by employers can be difficult to reconcile with parental obligations. As such, they may motivate different strategies for ...

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Tomorrow is National Child Care Day! From 1:00-2:30pm UNICEF will hold its annual Youth Advocacy Summit featuring youth leaders from across Canada. We look forward to their insights into children’s rights, education & climate change. You can learn more or register to attend here: buff.ly/XNwGX4E

Media Advisory: UNICEF Canada hosts Youth Advocacy Summit to mark National Child Day in Ottawa

UNICEF Canada hosts Youth Advocacy Summit to mark National Child Day in Ottawa

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Ontario & the feds have extended the national 10-dollar-a-day child care program for another year. Yet fees remain capped at $22. CBC’s David Common interviews Carolyn Ferns about why both levels of government have fallen short of their affordable childcare goals. buff.ly/nGXTK9i

A new article from RC/W Co-Investigator Member Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay with Ali Salehi, Sandra Dubouloz, and Céline Desmarais explores how culture shapes telework adoption: doi.org/10.33423/jop...

A new research paper from the RC/W written by @sylviafuller.bsky.social, Manlin Cai, @andreadoucet.bsky.social & Siqi Qin is out. They use Canadian survey data to track how Covid interventions like school closures & WFH influenced social reproduction within dual-earner households. buff.ly/gzv1LQB