Assessing equal opportunities in the European Union
Janneke Plantenga and Johan Hansen
International labour review, Vol.138(4), pp.351-379
1999
Abstract
equal employment opportunity equal rights labour market women workers evaluation technique international comparability labour force participation employment unemployment unpaid work occupational structure occupational status wage differential hours of work sexual division of labour men attitude economic implication child care facilities parental leave taxation statistical table EU countries
Develops and uses a set of comparable indicators (benchmarking) of the relative opportunities of men and women (the "gender gap") for assessing equal opportunities in 15 members States of the European Union.