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During the past 20 years, the number of women in Japan's labour force has increased dramatically. Day-care centers (creches) designed as places where children both live and are educated, are the most typical recourse for working mothers. Those which are licensed by the state do not generally meet working parent's needs for it is recommended, in view of the child's well being, that he/she should not enter a creche before he/she is 3 months old, and that he/she should not remain in the center for long periods of time before the age of one year. The new law on equality of employment and salary for both sexes, though good in its inspiration, has led women, like men, to work too much, sometimes up to 10 p.m. So parents have to resort to non-licensed creches where children can stay until late at night. The financial cost of a day-care centre, whether licensed or not, is very heavy and is entirely paid for by the parents.