Occupazione femminile: l'Olanda un esempio virtuoso per l'Italia?

Women's employment rates in Italy are still below the quantitative parameters set by the Lisbon Council in 2000: an average employment rate higher than 60% to be achieved by 2010. The reasons for this delay are manifold, specially important is the difficulty of reconciling work and family life. Recently, the General Director of the International Monetary Fund pointed out Netherlands as a model country for Italy on the subject of women's employment. Thus, the main purpose of this article is to analyze and compare women’s employment in both Italy and Netherlands, focusing on the evolution of employment rates, the role of part-time jobs as an alternative for reconciling work and family and the availability child-care centers as a support to employment continuity