As the number of women participating in the labour market across Europe has grown in recent years, attention has increasingly focused on differences between men's and women's experience of work. This report examines the extent of occupational segregation by gender and how it impacts on the...

This report presents a new way of investigating gender segregation by occupation. The analyses show conclusively that the nature of the occupation itself is important, above and beyond whether an occupation is male-dominated, female-dominated or mixed, and above and beyond whether an occupation...

The issue of working time is a central EU policy concern and continues to be controversial in the light of revisions to the working time directive. In recent times, work intensity - fuelled by globalisation and the need to fulfil Europe's objectives of being more competitive and to create...

Despite much legislative progress in gender equality over the past 40 years, there are still gender gaps across many aspects of the labour market. Inequalities are still evident in areas such as access to the labour market, employment patterns and associated working conditions. This report...