This publication contains the integral text of Document COM(2006) 92 final "A Roadmap forequality between women and men – 2006-2010 – communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions" which was adopted on 1 March 2006.

The paper survey the existing literature on the effects of active labor market policies on female individual labor market outcomes like employment and income. It considers training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance, adult education, and employment subsidies.

The main goal of this paper was to investigate the effects of child care costs on the employment decisions of married mothers in Greece. The analysis employed data from the 1998/99 Greek Household Budget Survey, which contains country-wide data on expenditures for several non- maternal child care alternatives.

This paper analyses the effect of children and career interruptions on women’s earnings capacity and tries to explain whether gender wage gap has been declining recently. The data set is a 0.5% representative panel sample of the Danish population covering years 1980-1995.

Results of a survey among 100 Hungarian companies on their opinion about employing women with small children and the application of flexible work solutions (2007).

Document identifies a guiding principle for the implementation of gender mainstreaming, coordinated by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth that developed a relevant concept built around the Interministerial Working Group on Gender Mainstreaming (IMA).

The paper analyzes the causal effects of changes in parental leave provisions on fertility and return-to-work behavior. It exploits a parental leave policy change that allows to estimate its causal effects very precisely. The policy change was implemented on July 1, 1990 in Austria and extended the maximum duration of parental leave from the child’s first to the child’s second birthday.

The document concerns not well- investigated problem of relationship between a woman’s reproductive history and her entry into retirement. Data was stem from the 1984 through 2001 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel study (GSOEP), provided by the DIW Berlin. The sample refers to western German women aged 50 to 69.

The paper investigates the relationship between work and family life in Britain. It uses information from the British Household Panel Survey, including the retrospective histories concerning work, union, and child bearing, to estimate this model

The paper describes and compares transitions into employment of mothers of newborn children in several European Countries. The analysis is based on individual data from the European Community Household Panel. The main purpose of this paper is to compare how long they take in different countries, which kind of jobs they get and which kind of childcare they use. It lists also which characteristics, of the woman, of the household and of the labour market, make these transitions more likely.