… November 2023 hosted by the European Federation for Family Employment and Home Care at the EGG Center in Brussels Good … to the members of the European Federation for Family Employment & home care and to my fellow panel members. It is … can give around 7.7 million European women who are out of employment because of care responsibilities, a chance to …
… leave. That’s because there are more men than women in employment, which is often a prerequisite for parental leave. … even more interestingly, sons whose mothers were in paid employment spend more time caring for their family members, …
… housework. Yet these kinds of jobs rarely provide a formal employment contract, which means their flexibility is limited … they cannot choose. Like others in non-standard forms of employment, they were rarely eligible for government support … workers, which would help bring more of them into formal employment. This status would bring many more rights, such as …