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Women in west fill 'misogynistic' mini-jobs
Published: 3 Jan 13 10:49 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/money/20130103-47115.html
Most of Germany's low-paid "mini-jobs" are filled by women in the West, according to new figures seen by Die Welt on Thursday.
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In some areas in North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland Palatinate and Lower Saxony mini-jobs make up as much as a third of all positions and one in four working women in the west are in low-paid jobs. In some western areas this figure is as high as 40 percent.
In the east of the country, however, mini-jobs are much rarer overall and just 16 percent of working women have one. The study's authors said this could be thanks to a longer history of women in full time employment in East Germany.
"Women in East Germany retained this stronger employment orientation after German unification," said study leader Alexander Herzog-Stein.
Meanwhile in the west, the authors suggested, traditional work-sharing roles where men work full-time and women juggle part-time work and caring for the family are more widespread.
"In the countryside it is mostly harder to combine family and career than in cities." Herzog-Stein told the paper. "That's because of unsatisfactory childcare."
Family Minister Kristina Schröder said that mini-jobs were misogynistic as women returning to part-time work after having a child often get stuck in mini-jobs without the prospect of full-time work later on.
"Instead we see a sticking effect: once a mini-job, always a mini-job," wrote Schröder in a new book to be released this month.
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Your comments about this article:
'Misogynistic???? Where do you people get these obscure, never used English words??????
forget that the greatest mind in world born from woman.I think woman
cant be pessimistic,because woman herself can be great too. Do u know
the famous example in Schaeffler Ag, of course that is Mrs.Maria
Schaeffler, after her husband died , she shoulder the heavy
responsiblity to watch over this global family owned business and have
more than 78000 employees worldwide, her deeds do show woman's courage
and ability can be compared with man and even exceed,and she believes
woman can do better ,recently she just use 2 woman managers in Hungary
subbranch ,in their recent expanded factory management teams as
important roles,so what's different between woman from east side and
west side, they can all be great if they want and exactly commit in
their jobs,of course it needs some sacrifice maybe in other sides
sometimes.