„Public funding for high-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) plays a key role in facilitating female labour force participation, but also participation in high-quality employment. In countries with higher expenditure on public childcare, occupational status penalties on motherhood tend to be lower, presumably because mothers have less need to accept lower-status (and often part-time) jobs to be able to care for their children.“
OECD (Hrsg.), Promoting Better Career Mobility for Longer Working Lives in Austria (2025), S. 101.