1 COMBINING EMPLOYMENT WITH CHILDCARE: AN ESCAPE FROM DEPENDENCE? Clare Ward Reading Borough Council, formerly SSRU Angela Dale Census Microdata Unit, Manchester University, formerly SSRU Heather Joshi Deputy Director, SSRU, City University NCDS WORKING PAPER 38 September 1994 Acknowledgements This paper is part of a project founded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 'Livelihoods: Dependence and Independence among women born in 1958'.