ABSTRACT
The women of Europe face very different economic conditions depending on the country they live in. This has been known for some time but until recently we have not been able to look so comprehensively at how different these conditions are across countries. The advent of directly comparable data collected in the same way and asking the same questions now facilitates a much more rigorous examination of the labourmarket conditions faced bywomen in different countries of Europe. Such a descriptive analysis is central to an understanding of why the position of women vis-à-vis men is different in each country and what the implications are for legislative changes and policy initiatives.
