Although patterns of time use are generally quite similar throughout Europe, some interesting differences can be observed between women and men and between the countries surveyed. On average, women aged ...

Promoting entrepreneurship and self-employment is one of the four Pillars of the Employment Guidelines which lie at the heart of the European Employment Strategy. Although the question of women's self-employment is not ...

66% of men and 45% of women in the European Union as a whole were economically active in 1995. The activity rate of women is lower than that of men in every single Member State. Similarly, for each age-group the activity ...