Valiente Fernández, Celia2009-09-232009-09-232003Gender & Society, 2003, vol.17, nº 2, p.287-292.0891-2432https://hdl.handle.net/10016/5290In Spain, public preschool programs have continuously expanded in the past three decades. However, this education policy has done little to support increases in the proportion of women in the paid workforce. Preschool is not child care because the former does not address the care needed by children younger than three years old and offers programs with short hours and long holidays.application/pdfeng©SAGE Publicationschild carepreschoolwomen's movementgenderSpainCentral state child care policies in postauthoritarian Spain: Implications for gender and carework arrangementsresearch articleSociologíaopen access