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Work-life balance as a condition of equal participation of women and men
in the labour market
November 11, 2013, VilniusMs Virginija LANGBAKK
Director of the European Institute for Gender Equality
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Women are disproportionately responsible for care activities
Women are less likely to participate in the labour market
Can reconciliation help?
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"… 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
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69.0
76.6
62.2
FTE employment
Duration of working life
Sectoral segregation
Flexibility of working time
Health and safety
Training at work
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The difference between Women and
men in FTE participation in the
labour is of 15 percentage point in all Member States
EU-27, 2010
41%56%
Full-time employment
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69.9
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"… 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
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38.8
45.5
33.0
Childcare activities
Domestic activities
Sport, culture and leisure activities
Volunteering and charitable activities
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38.8
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Many more women than men
spent, on average, one or
more hours a day on housework and
cookingEU-27, 2010
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Can reconciliation help?
Parenthood and employment Having children, on an EU average, decreases the employment rate of women by more than 10% compared to women without children, while men with children have a higher probability to work.
Eurostat, EU LFS.
Benefits
Reductions in public expenditure on benefits in relation to care work perpetuate the uneven distribution of unpaid care work between women and men
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ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT
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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’. (Nicos Peristianis, 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)