Sytuacja kobiet na europejskim rynku pracy
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2011
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Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Dziennikarstwa UAM
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The Situation of Women in the European Labor Market
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The considerations presented in the paper demonstrate that the situation of women in the
European labor market has considerably improved over the last decade. This is facilitated,
among other things, by the extensive legal instruments stipulated in the Treaty on the Functioning
of the European Union and in so-called ‘equality directives’. Yet, despite this extensive
and moderately coherent system of legal protection of women in the labor market, they
continue to have a weaker position than men. Gender segregation in the European Union is
a considerable problem; it is exemplified by women’s limited access to attractive positions and a gender pay gap, i.e. obtaining lower remuneration than men employed in comparable
positions. There are also other factors that influence limited women’s activity in professional
life. For a long time women have been second to men in terms of education, but the differences
in this area have been gradually decreasing in recent times. What continues to be a factor
to curb the participation of women in the European labor market is insufficient childcare
provisions. It should be pointed out that confronting demography with employment, and requesting
that women choose between home and family or work falsifies the problem. This has
clearly been noted in the Europe 2020 strategy, which creates a feedback between women’s
employment and their traditional role of guardians of home and hearth. This is facilitated by
flexible instruments in the labor market, such as contracts typical for a flexecurity model, e.g.
non-standard contracts and flexible hour contracts. Their implementation can contribute to
maintaining a positive trend that has recently been manifested in an increasing rate of employed
women.
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Przegląd Politologiczny, 2011, nr 2, s. 149-165.
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1426-8876