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Volume 2, Issue 3
1 March 1983
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Equal Opportunities International
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Review Article| March 01 1983

The Compatability of Family and Employment: Results of a comparative study of maternity/parental leave measures in West Germany, Austria, Hungary, Finland and Sweden

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7093
Print ISSN: 0261-0159
© MCB UP Limited
1983
Equal Opportunities International (1983) 2 (3): 31–34.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb010383

Results of a comparative study of maternity/parental leave measures in five European countries indicate that as long as there is no change in society's assessment of gainful employment and household chores, women in all countries will be burdened with this contradiction.

Keywords: Families, Women Workers, Discrimination, Maternity Leave
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