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2025-03-08
Financial self-reliance of women in the care sector in the Netherlands
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CESI's member organisation CNV Connectief shares its knowledge and policy solutions to improve the financial independence of women in the care sector.
CESI’s member organisation CNV Connectief shares its knowledge and policy solutions to improve the financial independence of women in the care sector, within the framework of the mainly EU funded project “Precarious work: empowering trade unions to address new challenges”.
The Netherlands has the highest percentage in Western Europe of prevalence of part-time contracts: 46.8%. Of those, 74% are women. Figures are even more worrying when taking a closer look at the care sector, when more than half of the workers are women who work less than 25 hours per week. As a result, these women represent a financially vulnerable group.
To tackle this issue, CNV proposes several measures from increased paid work to change our social views, for example having a 30-hour working week for both men and women to paying more attention for culturally determined norms.
Read the article in full here.
To learn more about this topic visit #noprecariouswork.
This project is mainly funded by funds from the European Union.
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