Bus driver Quote by Barbara Ehrenreich

We have women entering lower-paying career fields. Women are still, culturally, the primary caregivers for children, even though we would love to have fathers…

— Martha McSally

It’s not a nice-to-have—it’s a must-have. It’s time we stop treating child care as a side issue, or a women’s issue, and treat it…

— Barack Obama

If men started taking care of children, the job will become more valuable.

— Gloria Steinem

Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay…

— Garrett Hardin

“Free and accessible child care has always been a fundamental demand of the women’s movement, but the legislative efforts to pass such measures have…

— Lynn Povich

We're in a culture where everything is either consumption or production, so child care is either a very, very bad-paying form of work or…

— Alison Gopnik

“Any woman who has devoted herself to raising children has experienced the hollow praise that only thinly conceals smug dismissal. In a culture that…

— Ann Crittenden

The issue of childcare is the missing link in the full contribution of women to our society and to our economy.

— Nancy Pelosi

Defining child care primarily as women's sphere reinforces the devaluing of women and prevents their equal access to power.

— Mary Frances Berry

There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

— Harriet Harman

The care of children ..is infinitely better left to the best trained practitioners of both sexes who have chosen it as a vocation...[This] would…

— Kate Millett

The best thing a society can do is ensure its children are taken care of.

— Brigid Schulte