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City Day Care Lets Paris Moms Work, First Female Mayor Says

Paris may be home to some of Europe’s largest companies and best art museums. Mayor Anne Hidalgo says her key advantage in competing against the world’s cities is its cheap and widely available child care.

In the French capital, 87 percent of women of working age are in the labor force, in part thanks to a network of day-care centers that take kids as young as three months old and a public-school system that accepts them at three years.