  Women are set back in the labor market after becoming mother. Intuitively,
childcare services are able to promote women employment as they may
reconciliate the motherhood penalty. However, most known studies concentrated
on the effects of childcare services on fertility rate, instead of quantitative
analyses about the effects on women employment. Using worldwide panel data and
Chinese data at province level, this paper unfolds the quantitative
relationship between childcare services and women employment, that is, the
attendance rate of childcare services is positively correlated with the
relative employment rate of women to men. Further analysis suggests that such a
positive impact may largely resulted from breaking the vulnerable employment
dilemma.
