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.... Highly educated women generally have better possibilities for combining work and caring obligations and they seem to prefer reducing their working time instead of exiting employment. Similarly, women living in countries with a comprehensive family policy and work–family-friendly labour market regulation...

... in gender-neutral terms as really being family-friendly policies aimed at women ( Lewis and Campbell, 2008 ). Women find, however, that their access to policies is not guaranteed. Access relied on knowledge of the wider system of employee rights and protections and how these apply in local workplace...

... participation of women, with most attention paid to childcare. This debate is not care-centred, but rather focuses on how to ‘reconcile’ work and family responsibilities (the usual parlance at EU level); how to make workplaces more ‘family friendly’ (the usual term in the UK during the 1990s); or, since 2000...

... countries, more educated mothers are more likely to have continuous careers and why working mothers tend to concentrate on 146 the more family-friendly public sector ( Solera and Bettio, 2013 ). The low rate of female participation in the paid labour market and the fact that women exit the labour market...