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Work-life balance as a condition of equal participation of women and men in the labour market

Explore the impact of work-life balance on women's labor market participation. Discuss the challenges faced, such as caregiving responsibilities and societal expectations. Learn how reconciliation efforts can empower women in the workforce.

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Work-life balance as a condition of equal participation of women and men in the labour market

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  1. Work-life balance as a condition of equal participation of women and men in the labour market November 11, 2013, Vilnius Ms Virginija LANGBAKK Director of the European Institute for Gender Equality

  2. Women are less likely to participate in the labour market Can reconciliation help? Women are disproportionately responsible for care activities

  3. "… If you asked me if I would stay at home with the kids and she would go to work, I find this unimaginable and I wouldn't like this… In fact, yes, this would be humiliating for me to know that my wife is the breadwinner. But also because I think that children need their mother more in the early years than their fathers". A man from Hungary, 22 years old

  4. 76.6 FTE employment 69.0 Duration of working life 62.2 Sectoral segregation Flexibility of working time Health and safety Training at work

  5. Full-time employment The difference between Women and men in FTE participation in the labour is of 15 percentage point in all Member States 56% 41% EU-27, 2010

  6. 69.9

  7. "… If you asked me if I would stay at home with the kids and she would go to work, I find this unimaginable and I wouldn't like this… In fact, yes, this would be humiliating for me to know that my wife is the breadwinner. But also because I think that children need their mother more in the early years than their fathers". A man from Hungary, 22 years old

  8. 45.5 Childcare activities Domestic activities 38.8 33.0 Sport, culture and leisure activities Volunteering and charitable activities

  9. 38.8

  10. Many more women than men spent, on average, one or more hours a day on housework and cooking EU-27, 2010

  11. Parenthood and employment Benefits Reductions in public expenditure on benefits in relation to care work perpetuate the uneven distribution of unpaid care work between women and men Can reconciliation help? Having children, on an EU average, decreases the employment rate of women by more than 10% compared to womenwithout children, while men with children have a higher probability to work. Eurostat, EU LFS.

  12. Room for improvement

  13. Decision-makers are usually men and these are the people that need to be impacted. They must be made to feel responsible for the changes that need to be brought about’.(NicosPeristianis, sociologist, Chairman of the Board of the University of Nicosia Background Study on the Involvement of Men in Gender Equality within EIGE's working areas (2011)

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