Romania, the only EU country where the share of part-time contracts is higher for men than for women
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Romania is the only EU Member State where the share of men aged 25-49 who worked part-time (5.7 percent) is higher than that of women (5.5 percent), Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union shows.
One in 15 employed men aged 25-49 in the EU (6.7 percent) worked part-time in 2016, compared to almost 1 in 3 women of the same age (29.8 percent). In virtually all EU Member States, fewer men than women worked part-time.
This difference was largest in the Netherlands, where the number was 16.9 percent for men and 71.6 percent for women, representing a 54.7 percentage point (pp) gap for this country and age group. The gap was 30 pp or over in four other EU Member States: Austria (40.0 pp), Germany (38.5 pp), Belgium (31.9 pp) and the United Kingdom (31.7 pp). In contrast, this gap was 5 pp or less in Bulgaria, Croatia, Lithuania, Hungary, Slovakia, Cyprus, Latvia, and in Portugal.
At EU level, men with one child are less likely to work part-time than men with no children, and men with two children are less likely to work part-time than men with one child. However, this pattern changes slightly with three or more children, with a higher share of men working part-time if they have three or more children compared to men with two children. For women, the percentage in part-time employment continues to increase with the number of children.
While the percentage of part-time employment for men aged 25 to 49 without children stood at 8.3 percent in the EU in 2016, 19.6 percent of women in the same age group without children worked part-time (a 11.3 pp gap). The gap widened to 26.3 pp for men and women with one child, further increased to 33.7 pp for those with two children and rose to 38.2 pp for those with three children or more.
While the pattern of part-time work for men was relatively stable, the percentage of women aged 25-49 working part-time rose significantly from those who do not have children (19.6 percent), have one child (31.5 percent) and have three children or more (45.7 percent).
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