Finnish families with children not keeping up with the Jones’s
Couples are fairing well since 1990, single-parent households are not…
Single-parent households emerge as a group of their own with distinctively worse income development. The incomes of couples with two children have grown by 14 per cent from 1990, but the growth of income of single-parent households lags behind at 5 per cent.
And the welfare state haven’t been keeping up to the times on social benefits for women…
social benefits have been created for a world of the past where women, too, entered the work force at the age of 25 after having completed their studies. Thus they had ample time to gather enough service years to entitle them to income-related maternity benefits. Now, more and more mothers are left with only minimum-level benefits.
And here’s a distressing statistic…
Unemployment and temping are most common among the young. In 2003, 58 per cent of women aged 20-22 and 31 per cent of women aged 25-34 had fixed-term work contracts.
Ouch! So much for feminism, female workers’ solidarity, and all that noise - in Finland.
yo, starting part time or with a fixed contract seems to be the common way for women to enter their work life. That is for example a work internship during studies. I don’t think this is much different for men however. I guess most enter into a job as a part time and or intern and then continue from there.
Comment by Anonymous — Fri, Jul 29th, 2005 @ 8:00 am
Ouch! So much for feminism, female workers??? solidarity, and all that noise - in Finland.
Actually, this is a time when all of these things are most needed.
My personal experience tells me that a young working woman’s biggest obstacle in entering the working world is not other women. It’s middle-aged men who are scared to death of facing the fact that they, along with their attitudes, have to change. It’s inevitable.
Comment by Anzi — Fri, Jul 29th, 2005 @ 10:45 am
What bugs me about this “women get the worst of it”, when talking about not getting a fixed contract is, that it is not really about gender at all. I have been working without one all my adult life, as have virtually all the people in my age group who work in the universities.
It was only last year that I got a five-year contract, which is the best available. The fact of the matter is, that in the public sector people get these short-term contracts. There are more women there.
Comment by Tiedemies — Sat, Jul 30th, 2005 @ 7:06 am
“Ouch! So much for feminism, female workers??? solidarity, and all that noise - in Finland.
Actually, this is a time when all of these things are most needed.
My personal experience tells me that a young working woman???s biggest obstacle in entering the working world is not other women”
Every extra benefit to women (which are practically always mothers benefits), is just going to cut down womens salaries and employment.
Comment by Syltty — Mon, Aug 1st, 2005 @ 6:58 pm