Part time work isone important challenge to Gender equality in the labour market—a key topic in the Nordic cooperation on gender equality 2011-2014. It is more common among women than men and affects their economic opportunities at the individual level and the gender equality in the labour market.This report gives facts and statistics on the trends in part-time work among women and men, studying reported reasons and the long term economic consequences of part-time work. It also highlights how male and female full-time and part-time workers in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden experience and feel about their income level and economic situation.
This platform is part of the Axis 1 "Strengthening the capacities of equality actors" of the Priority Solidarity Fund "Women for the future in the Mediterranean" funded by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and led by the European Institute of the Mediterranean, in the framework of the project “Developing Women's Empowerment” labelled by the Union for the Mediterranean.
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