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    Pilot in Harlow: An Intranet for Fathers Employed by the City Council and a Booklet for Young Dads Living in Harlow

    Co-responsibility, 2006
    In 2006, the organisation Working With Men carried out research with fathers living in Harlow in the UK about their experiences of balancing work and family responsibilities. They talked to two groups of men: one made up of fathers employed by Harlow Council, the other made up of young fathers.
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    Final Report of the International Conference on ?Men and Work Life Balance?, Brussels, 22-23 February 2007

    Co-responsibility, 2007
    The Europena Union (EU) is playing a major role in driving work-life balance policies, especially in relation to paternity leave. For instance, it has funded a number of projects which have evaluated the situation of work-life balance in Europe. A set of regulations have also been defined at the European level and all Member States have established standards in accordance with them.
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    Comparative Perspective of Work Life Balance in France, Spain, UK and Belgium

    Co-responsibility, 2009
    This inventory provides an overview of local and regional policies relating to fatherhood and work-life balance in Europe, including initiatives to educate fathers about their parental responsibilities, private-sector initiatives, provision of childcare facilities in the workplace, and flexible working hours policies.
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    Gender and Care: Overview Report

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    Providing care can be both a source of fulfilment and a terrible burden. For women and girls in particular, their socially prescribed role as carers can undermine their rights and limit their opportunities, capabilities and choices - posing a fundamental obstacle to gender equality and well-being.
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    Change and Continuity in Social Protection in Latin America: Mothers at the Service of the State?

    2007
    Far from 'empowering' women, social protection programmes in Latin America often increase women's unpaid responsibilities and reinforce the gender division of labour. This is the central argument put forward in this paper, which critically analyses two social protection programmes in Latin America. The first is the well-known Mexican-based Oportunidades programme (formerly Progresa).
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    Gender Equality and the Extension of Social Protection

    International Labour Organization, 2003
    There is overwhelming evidence that women occupy a disadvantaged status in relation to work opportunities when compared to men from equivalent social groups. Underpinning this is the unequal division of domestic and care work between men and women, which constrains women from taking up or remaining in full-time employment.
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    Manual for Gender Mainstreaming: Social Inclusion and Social Protection Policies

    European Commission, 2007
    What do EU policy makers need to do to mainstream gender into social inclusion and social protection policies? This manual provides policy makers with a hands-on tool to aid this process. It suggests several factors to consider when designing social protection policies.
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    Gender and Unpaid Work: Findings from the Time Use Survey

    Statistics, New Zealand, 2001
    Women and men in New Zealand spend about the same amount of time working - on average about seven hours a day. But while approximately 60 percent of men's work is paid, almost 70 percent of women's work is unpaid. Based on the findings of New Zealand's first national Time Use Survey conducted in 1998/9, this article explores differences in women's and men's participation in unpaid work.
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    Career family equal opportunities: studies on women and men in the Czech labour market

    Gender Studies, o.p.s., 2007
    These three papers provide the results of studies concerning the position of women and men in the Czech labour market which were carried out as a part of the European Union's Equal project ?Fifty - fifty: Equal Opportunities for Women and Men?.
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    The Provision of Childcare Services in the Czech Republic

    2008
    This paper draws attention to the problems faced by parents in the Czech Republic in finding a place for their child in pre-school facilities. This is due both to the decline of childcare services since 1989, coupled with the slightly increasing trend in the fertility rates in recent years.

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