RC/W Collaborator Marian Baird recently published an edited collection, "The Multigenerational Workforce: Managing Age and Gender at Work,” including a chapter on care as a key component. Read more in the thread below, or check out the book here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

RC/W Co-Investigator Sylvia Fuller spoke to HRReporter to discuss the challenges of return-to-office (RTO) mandates, warning arbitrary full-time RTO can be "disastrous" for employee morale. www.hrreporter.com/focus-areas/...

How Universal Child Care Could Change the Economy www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

RC/W Co-Investigator Kim de Laat spoke about our research on Metro Morning recently, talking about why people are using workplace apps to manage personal lives and offering key insights into modern family dynamics. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

RC/W Co-Investigator Rachael Pettigrew recently spoke with HRReporter to discuss challenges return-to-office mandates as potentially undermining workplace gains for women, and flexibility gaps in our new era of illness. www.hrreporter.com/focus-areas/...

Many members of the RC/W team—Andrea Doucet, Sophie Mathieu, PhD, Lindsey McKay, Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay, Donna Lero, and Kenya Thompson—contributed to this years’ International Review of Leave Policies. www.leavenetwork.org/annual-revie...

A recent chapter by RC/W Collaborator Marian Baird with Myra Hamilton and Nate Zettna looks at care as a central pillar for managing multigenerational workforces, challenging the notion that unpaid care is only provided by younger workers for their children. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

New research by the RC/W’s Andrea Doucet and co-authors examines LGBTQ+ parents' care and work arrangements during COVID-19 in Canada. doi.org/10.1080/0091...

Manlin Cai, RA with the RC/W and UBC PhD Candidate, recently spoke to The Tyee about the gaps in Canada's support for working parents, describing how Canada is lagging internationally in flexible work arrangements and personal leave policies. thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...

RC/W Co-Investigator Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay's new paper, "Does perceived organizational support for strength use enhance employee well-being and task performance?" examines how supporting employees' strengths improves both well-being and performance. doi.org/10.1108/JOEP...

Delighted to announce this forthcoming chapter with Martha Friendly and Jenna Quelch on CWELCC and Canadian federalism. Thanks to all the interview participants who gave so generously of their time @rcwpolicies.bsky.social utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...

New research from Margaret Gibson, Bridget Livingstone, Andrea Doucet & Jenna Cooper sheds light on the underexplored question of gendered divisions of labour within LGBTQ+ households during the pandemic, a cohort that is usually excluded from studies on the household division of labour...

Thank you to RC/W partner Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives for this new report on the rate of affordable child care expansion across the country! @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

New research by Adrienne Davidson, Jenna Quelch & Linda White @lindawhite.bsky.social explores policy feedback effects in the early childhood education & care sector. They find the institutionalization of private actors (both for and not-for-profit) accumulates and institutionalizes over time...

Many congrats to @lindawhite.bsky.social and team! See our @rcwpolicies.bsky.social website for more excellent, timely contributions on #childcare #parentalleave and more!

A recent report from RC/W partner organization Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, "Support for parents in a post-pandemic world: Options for enhancing federal maternity and parental leave" highlights how Canada's parental leave system falls short. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Another great contribution from our RC/W team members!

Income inequality hit a new high in 2025 as the RCW's Katherine Scott highlights the contrast between high unemployment for young grads and stable investment incomes for the wealthy. theglobeandmail.com/business/article-income-gap-hit-record-high-in-first-quarter-statscan-says/

New research by Mara Yerkes et. al. explores scaling parenting support to prevent violence against children in Tanzania: implementationsciencecomms.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

A policy brief by RC/W team members Manlin Cai, Donna Lero, and Sylvia Fuller with The Vanier Institute of the Family highlights the critical gap in Canada's care/work policies for parents juggling employment and caregiving responsibilities. vanierinstitute.ca/resource/pol...

Released today, Interim Space Statistics 2024 is the latest report in CRRU's ECEC in Canada series: childcarecanada.org/publications... #cdnchildcare

We organized a panel at the Canadian Sociological Association, "Social Impact Research on Canadian Care/Work Policies," to explore how sociological research can drive policy change for families balancing work and caregiving responsibilities. event.fourwaves.com/csa-scs-conf...

RC/W Co-Founder Martha Friendly was awarded a Community Recognition Award by MPP Jessica Bell, highlighting Martha's impact as a leading voice in Canada’s child care movement for nearly 50 years. www.jessicabellmpp.ca/meet_the_202....

Did you hear? We just released out latest Newsletter, highlighting the research of our team of researchers and multi-sectoral partners exploring policies, practices, and meanings of care/work for diverse families in Canada. Find it on our website here: rcwproject.ca/wp-content/u...

Back in May, the Vanier Institute of the Family partnered with the Department of Human Ecology at the University of Alberta to host the panel discussion "Who Is Family and Why Should We Care?” vanierinstitute.ca/resource/who...

We are officially on Bluesky! If you're new here, Child Care Now is a membership-based nonprofit fighting for a publicly-funded, inclusive, high quality, and affordable early learning and child care system in Canada. Join our movement and help push for public systems and policies that work for us!

Exciting news: RC/W’s Project Leader Andrea Doucet article, “Care is not a tally sheet: rethinking the field of gender divisions of domestic labour with care-centric conceptual narratives” was one of Families, Relationships and Societies’ most highly cited articles in 2024.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... New week, new article! @equityed.bsky.social

David Macdonald & Martha Friendly authored a report for the CCPA Canada's progress toward achieving universal childcare. So far only six provinces have achieved their targets. @policyalternatives.ca @mfriendly.bsky.social @davidmaccdn.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

July 14th! Launch Party: The @AECEO Summer Challenge: Care Counts, Wages Matter! Register today!! www.aeceo.ca/2025_summer_...

Back in May, RC/W Co-Investigator Sophie Mathieu delivered a keynote presentation at the Réseau pour un Québec Famille's forum "Agir ensemble pour tisser notre Québec Famille" exploring the question: "Is Quebec truly a family paradise?" www.quebecfamille.org/fr/programma...

RC/W Co-Investigator and time-use researcher Melissa Milkie recently delivered a Big Ideas Talks at the Work and Family Researchers Network conference, reminding us that "Time is our most important resource. Once it's spent, we can't get it back. EVER!” wfrn.org/video/meliss...

Check out RC/W Co-Founder Martha Friendly's chapter on Early Childhood Education and care as a social determinant of health in the newly released 4th edition of "Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts. tinyurl.com/mjuesnbh

Professor Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay of TÉLUQ University and Co-Investigator with the RC/W has been awarded the prestigious King Charles III Coronation Medal, recognizing her significant contributions to Canadian society through significant impact on policy development and organizational practices.

Congratulations to Dr. Andrea Doucet, the RC/W’s fearless leader, on being named Distinguished Professor at Brock University! This lifetime appointment recognizes her outstanding contributions to research on work, care, and family policy. brocku.ca/brock-news/2...

On Mother’s Day, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Katherine Scott addressed rising pronatalist sentiments in Canada and highlighted three significant but often overlooked barriers to parenthood and the policies that could address them. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

A new policy brief from the Vanier Institute of the Family, authored by RC/W Co-Investigators Donna Lero and Sylvia Fuller, examines how Canadian families balance care responsibilities. Read more: vanierinstitute.ca/resource/pol...

Andrea Doucet speaks on the enduring legacy of ecologist Rachel Carson and her seminal work Silent Spring. In her Big Ideas talk for the Work and Family Researchers Network "Nothing Exists Alone" Doucet outlines three enduring lessons we can derive on Care/Work. wfrn.org/video/andrea...

Andrea Doucet, Eva Jewell & Jessica Falk have a new article in the Sociological Review: “Deep listening, slow relationships, world-making: Indigenous & feminist ecological reflections on the Listening Guide and the Live Methods Manifesto.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Vanier Institute has published a policy brief on Care/Work policies by Manlin Cai, Donna Lero & Sylvia Fuller on the challenges facing employed parents of young children, who face a range of caregiving responsibilities that can be both predictable, like school pick-ups, and unpredictable...

On National Indigenous People's Day, RC/W Co-Investigator Vanessa Watts, Associate Professor & Paul R. MacPherson Chair in Indigenous Studies at McMaster University, will be keynote speaker at "Re-Neighbouring as Reconciliation: Indigenous Stories of Resistance." www.eventbrite.com/e/re-neighbo...

We are thrilled to share that RC/W Project Leader Andrea Doucet has been honored with the 2025 Mirabelli-Glossop Award for Distinguished Contribution, alongside Marie-Christine Saint-Jacques. vanierinstitute.ca/news-item/an...

Leading up to the recent federal election, RC/W Co-Investigator Dr. Sophie Mathieu wrote a piece for Policy Options about the scant attention issues affecting women, children, and families received in the campaign, across the political spectrum. policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/ap...

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In this Big Ideas Talk, Andrea Doucet, our Project Director and Principal Investigator, emphasizes the need to rethink our understanding of care and explore innovative solutions.

RC/W Research Assistant Kenya Thompson and co-author Emma Willert have published a new chapter, "Re-Paving the Path: Improving Upon Quebec’s Childcare Policy Model in the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Plan." Check out the book here:

As Canada get ready to head to the polls, many candidates have expressed their support or critique of the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care plan. Martha Friendly and Gordan Cleveland, RC/W Co-Investigators, have published a new article in response: childcarepolicy.net/eight-things...

RC/W co-investigator Susan Prentice, with co-author Molly McCracken with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, published an article with the Free Press highlighting the need for a greater public role in child care. Read here:

RC/W co-investigator Susan Prentice, with co-author Molly McCracken with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, published an article with the Free Press highlighting the need for a greater public role in child care. Read here: www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...