Presentation Gender Equality B

1. STRUCTURAL CHANGES INTHE ECONOMY:Esping-Andersen (1999): At this time, the greatest number of jobs are beingcreated in the service industry. (Adnett and Hardy 2005: 90 per cent ofrecent job creation in the EU has been in services.) The dual-breadwinnermodel favors job growth in services since a family with two workers hasnot got much time, and hence creates demand for household servicesthrough the market.Part-time jobs, the most obvious example is the Netherlands where 75 % of theemployed women are working part-time (Commission report on genderequality 2006 p 15); NL had extreme growth of female employment duringthe 1980s.Growth of care services, the most obvious example is Sweden with its publicsector; 80 % of the members of the Swedish Municipal Workers’ Union arewomen (www.kommunal.se) The public sector grew rapidly in the 1970s.OECD (2006): Ireland needs to increase its female labour participation, to dothis daycare provision must be improved