A large-scale survey offers a panorama vue of current tensions between family life and work life in France

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INED is publishing the first findings of a new "Families and Employers" survey and launching a new series called "First Survey Results."

Remote working, paternity leave, a wide range of family structures and employment situations, company policies to facilitate work life-family life balancing—these developments constitute major transformations over the last twenty years. The survey also points up the persistence of gender inequalities: domestic task sharing remains quite unbalanced and women's occupational trajectories are still considerably more affected by the birth of a childthan men's.

 

  • 46%of parents with children under 12 turn to grandparents for assistance
  • 19%of mothers of children under 18 are lone parents, as against 7% of fathers
  • 17%of 20 to 65-year-olds help a disabled or dependent family member at least once a week.