ABSTRACT
The sharp increase in the number of women in part-time employment is evidence of one effect this problem has on the labour market. In all industrialised countries women’s increasing participation in the labour force, especially on the part of women with children, has given the problem of compatibility of family and work life a new urgency. The social services they are thinking of here are those concerned with childcare, care of the sick and ageing, the responsibility for which has always, to a large extent, rested with the family. On the other side of the political spectrum, the trade unions, the Social Democratic Party, and a large part of the feminist movement fear that such policies would only worsen the already existing inequality between men and women. Since it is only concerned with a single case study, in no way is it suggested that its results can be taken as a respresentative statistical sample.
