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4.6.3 Trends emerging from EU-wide data Indicator 1: Following the 1996 European Directive, all employed parents have a right to at least three months' (not necessarily paid) leave at the birth of a child. This leave is separate from maternity leave for mothers and from paternity leave for fathers where it exists; maternity leave varies between 14 and 20 weeks depending on the country, and is always paid (at 60 to 100 % of prior salary). In certain countries, maternity leave is integrated into parental leave (SE, PT) and may be shared with the father (ES). An overview of the situation in the EU reveals wide diversity in parental leave in terms of both duration and payment. Parental leave varies from 13/14 weeks (the minimum) in the United Kingdom and Ireland to three years in nine MS (CZ, DE, ES, FR, HU, LT, LV, PL, SK). It is unpaid in seven countries (although in some countries there exist collective agreements on paid parental leave), of which five are old MS (ES, EL, IE, NL, UK); paid at a low rate in seven more (AT, BE, CZ, FR, IT, PL, SK); and paid for the whole duration or a defined part of the parental leave as a percentage of previous salary in eight MS (DE, DK, EE, FI, LT, LU, LV, SE, SI). Data not available for BG and RO. Eurostat have published some data on employed men and women on maternity and parental leave, but data are not available for all countries and the data, especially concerning fathers, seem uncertain. For employed women with children below 8 years, the highest proportion is found in Austria, almost 20 % (see figure 4.6.1). In three more countries the proportion is higher than 10 %, while in five countries the proportion is less than 4 %. In no country is the proportion of employed fathers with children below the age of 8 on parental leave higher than 1% and in most cases is 0 %. Indicator 2: Today many countries have different ways of encouraging fathers to take parental leave, however, regardless of the system in place, parental leave remains very female-dominated. 14508/09 ADD 1 PL/vk 86 ANNEX DG G EN
The data is uncertain and, at least in some cases, it is not correct and therefore it is at this stage unsuitable for indicator 2. Yet a general preliminary conclusion is that when parental leave is more equally divided between the parents, it is because mothers' leaves are short, not because of any equality gains because fathers' leaves are long. In many countries fathers have a right to paternity leave around the time of birth. This leave is often paid and is to be taken at the same time as the mother is on maternity leave. When the fathers use these days, which seems to be common, and if mothers' leave is short, the parental leave appears to be more equally divided than when mother's leave is longer. There are also EU-SILC data, which show the proportion of children taken care of only by the parents, i.e. they are cared for mainly by their mothers and are not in any formal or other arrangement of childcare. In this respect there are big differences between EU countries. In five countries less than 30 % of children aged 0-3 are taken care of only by parents; in six countries between 30 and 50 % are taken care of only by parents; in five countries more than half the children but less than 70 % are taken care of only by parents and in the remaining six countries 70 % or more of the children are taken care of only by parents (see figure 4.6.2). The proportion of children in this age group that are taken care of only by parents probably mainly depends on the length of the maternity/parental leave, the extent to which it is paid and the availability of childcare. In the Nordic countries formal childcare is widely available. In Finland, where parents can be on leave until the child is three years old, a very large proportion of the children in that age group are taken care of only by parents (70 %), in Sweden parental leave is 16 months and more than half (52 %) of the children are taken care of only by their parents and in Denmark the corresponding figures are 10.5 months and 26 %. Among older children as well – from 3 years old to compulsory school age – the variation in the proportion of children who are taken care of only by their parents is large between countries – from 1 % in Belgium to 46 % in Poland. In twelve countries, the proportion is below 10 %; in seven countries from 10 % up to and including 20 %; over 20 % in six countries. Indicator 3: There are harmonised EU statistics on the provision of (formal and other) childcare arrangements within the context of the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (SILC). 14508/09 ADD 1 PL/vk 87 ANNEX DG G EN
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COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION Bruss
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Table of Contents Table of Contents
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The Regulation establishing a Europ
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High Level Group on Gender Equality
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Women and the media In 2006, the EW
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Page 47 and 48: IV IMPLEMENTATIONS OF ACTIONS IN TH
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Page 63 and 64: overall. Today girls and women have
Page 65 and 66: Indicator1: measures the number of
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6.3. Challenges for the future Euro
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Annex I Indicators developed at EU
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Figure 4.3.1 Number of years with g
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Figure 4.3.3 Proportion of persons
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Figure 4.3.5 Proportion of persons
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Figure 4.3.7 Proportions of women a
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Figure 4.6.1 Employed women and men
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Figure 4.6.5 Proportion of children
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Figure 4.6.9 Time spent on domestic
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Figure 4.6.13 Time spent on domesti
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Table 4.7.1 The cluster of Member S
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