Equality: Family Minister Calls for Better Conditions for Working Mothers
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Only just under 40 percent of mothers work with toddlers, almost 89 percent work with fathers. Karin Prien sees the constitutional mandate for equality missing.
In the case of parents of young children, women are much more likely to be responsible for care, but other factors also prevent mothers from working.
WIESBADEN. When children are born, mothers often do more caring work than fathers and are significantly less likely to work. New data show astonishingly consistent patterns in the long-term comparison. Mother service (symbol photo.) Photo: Shutterstock Mothers of small children take more caring work and are significantly less likely to work than fathers in the same family situation. In 2025, less than half of mothers (39.7 percent) with at least…
In 2025, 39.7% of mothers with at least one child under three years of age were employed, as reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on Mother's Day on 10 May. For fathers living with one or more children under three years of age, the employment rate was more than twice as high at 88.7%. {/mprestriction} Mothers of small children more frequently than ten years earlier Mothers of under three years of age are currently slightly more …
When children are born, mothers often do more caring work than fathers and are much less likely to work. New data show astonishingly consistent patterns in the long-term comparison.
When children are born, mothers often do more caring work than fathers and are much less likely to work. New data show astonishingly consistent patterns in the long-term comparison.
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