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Employment and childbearing:women bear the burden of the work-family balance

Population and Societies

426, September 2006

It is women who bear children, and therefore logical to expect their working careers to be more affectedthan those of men. But the gap between men’s meagre involvement in childcare and the major adjust-ments made by women is a wide one: fathers cut back their working activity twenty times less oftenthan mothers do.

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