The study Babies and Bosses, Reconciling Work and Family Life (ISBN: 9789264032446, info available on http://www.oecd.org/document/45/0,3343,en_2649_34819_39651501_1_1_1_1,00.html#Press) addresses the different approaches taken by 30 OECD countries to facilitate parents to balance their work and family commitments. Key indicators on fertility, female and sole parent employment, childcare participation, child poverty and gender pay gap were examined to provide international comparison. The presented overview refers to key outcomes for Slovakia compared to the OECD average and other countries data. In the presented overview data for Slovakia were provided just in three out of six indicators. Slovakia featured 1.25 fertility rate compared to OECD average of 1.63 births per one woman (around 2005), 50.9 female employment rate compared to OECD average of 56.1 (2005), and 17.7 participation rate in childcare services for children aged under 3 years compared to OECD average of 22.9 (2004).
The study Babies and Bosses, Reconciling Work and Family Life (ISBN: 9789264032446, info available on http://www.oecd.org/document/45/0,3343,en_2649_34819_39651501_1_1_1_1,00.html#Press) addresses the different approaches taken by 30 OECD countries to facilitate parents to balance their work and family commitments. Key indicators on fertility, female and sole parent employment, childcare participation, child poverty and gender pay gap were examined to provide international comparison. The presented overview refers to key outcomes for Slovakia compared to the OECD average and other countries data. In the presented overview data for Slovakia were provided just in three out of six indicators. Slovakia featured 1.25 fertility rate compared to OECD average of 1.63 births per one woman (around 2005), 50.9 female employment rate compared to OECD average of 56.1 (2005), and 17.7 participation rate in childcare services for children aged under 3 years compared to OECD average of 22.9 (2004).
read less ...