The Contribution and Challenges of Work Place Child Day Care Service
| dc.contributor.advisor | Jemaneh, Agaredech PhD | |
| dc.contributor.author | Moges, Berhanie | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-12-13T07:15:11Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-18T08:46:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-12-13T07:15:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-18T08:46:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-04 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Globally women's engagement in outdoor income-generating activities is increasing from time to time. However, many factors are affecting women’s engagement in such activities. One of such activities is carrying for children. A significant number of women are forced to quit their employment or their effectiveness is compromised due to their dual responsibilities. One of the mechanisms that can help working women to have productive work engagement is establishing workplace child daycare centers. Without daycare facilities, the quality of women’s life is undermined in every way. Hence the aim of establishing the center is to address these growing gaps. Theoretically different studies argued that nowadays, many families with young children must choose between spending a significant portion of their income on child care or leaving the workforce altogether to become full-time caregiver. In Ethiopia, specifically in Addis Ababa, most of the young working parents need the child care service. So parents prefer center-based care to other forms of non-family care because they consider daycare centers as a better option. Therefore the purpose of this study is to examine the contribution of workplace child daycare in reducing the burden of work-family balance in general and increasing the performance of working mothers in Addis Ababa General Wingate Polytechnic College and Ministry of Industry care centers. These sites were selected because they have played the leading role in establishing child daycare centers and are experienced in implementing the services. Four major areas were analyzed deeply in line with the objective of the study i.e. the contribution, the challenges in the implementation process, the impacts of non –Parental child daycare service out of the center, and performances of working mothers who are using the service. The study used a purely qualitative research method through indepth interview, Key informant interview(KII), Focused Group Discussion (FGD) and critical observation. The research findings indicated that the contribution of child daycare services within two years of implementation experience has a positive impact on children’s psychological growth and secured child-rearing style, sharing caring activities and reducing the burden of caring activities on mothers. It has also significantly contributed to employee parents in terms of psychological relief, reducing responsibility, income earner opportunity, and avoiding extended family management. Furthermore the daycare center service creates an opportunity for the empowerment of professional women who were deprived of working in the office due to cultural and social domination | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/29222 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Contribution and Challenges | en_US |
| dc.title | The Contribution and Challenges of Work Place Child Day Care Service | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |