Työ- ja yksityiselämän tasapaino

The fifth edition of the biennial compendium of social indicators – /Society at a glance 2009/ –compiled by the Organisation for Co-operation and Development (OECD [1]), was published in May 2009. The report (available in English and French) is accompanied by a website [2] which provides Microsoft

Within the project ‘Family, employment, education [1]’, company research was completed in 2007, which, among other aspects, focused on issues related to employees taking up maternity leave [2] or parental leave [3] and therefore leaving their workplace for a certain time period. The representative

The Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend, BMFSFJ [1]) commissioned a study to evaluate the current situation of mothers re-entering the labour market. The study, Returning to work after starting a family (in

Researchers from Ireland’s independent Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI [1]) published a paper in the academic journal /Gender Work and Organization/ in January 2009 entitled ‘The impact of flexible working arrangements on work–life conflict and work pressure in Ireland’. [1] http://www

The findings of a 2007 survey on the reconciliation of work and family life reveal that Lithuanian society is still quite conservative about sharing family responsibilities between men and women. The main barrier to achieving a better balance between work and family life continues to be the personal

A 2008 study by the National Institute for Statistics (Istituto Nazionale di Statistica, Istat [1]) on Reconciling work and family: A daily challenge (in Italian, 2.7Mb PDF) [2] finds that inequality between the genders represents a deep-rooted issue in Italy. The situation of women, both employed

Family-friendly measures have moved up the agenda in Maltese society in recent times, and yet little is known on what measures are being implemented in the workplace in this regard. Family-friendly measures for workers in the public sector are generous, but the same cannot be said for those working

In the period 2005–2008, the Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs (Výzkumný ústav práce a sociálních vĕcí, RILSA [1]) implemented the Gender in management project (in Czech, 1Mb PDF) [2], which analysed the position of women in relation to men in the same management jobs in Czech