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93-percent of women looked after their under-age children on a daily basis - compared to 69-percent of men (Photo: Unsplash)

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EU countries' tax-and-benefit systems penalise women

How tax-and-benefit systems are structured has a major impact on women's participation in the labour market.

The most immediate reasons are two-fold: there is insufficient recognition of childcare costs, and joint-taxation can negatively affect the second earner, who is in78 percent of cases female across the EU.

The first is easily understandable, since the burden of childcare is <...

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Paula joined EUobserver in January 2023 and left for Euronews in 2024. Previously she worked for the Spanish online newspaper El Confidencial, where she covered mainly economic and financial affairs.

93-percent of women looked after their under-age children on a daily basis - compared to 69-percent of men (Photo: Unsplash)

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Paula joined EUobserver in January 2023 and left for Euronews in 2024. Previously she worked for the Spanish online newspaper El Confidencial, where she covered mainly economic and financial affairs.

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