Encouraging women to increase their working hours could be one answer to tackling looming labour shortages in Switzerland. Currently,six out of ten women in the country work part-time – one of the highest rates in Europe. Over the next decade, nearly a million people will retire in Switzerland, and while just 500000 will enter the workforce,according to estimates by the Swiss Employers' Union. The union's president, Valentin Vogt, and is lobbying for women in the workforce to increase their hours by more than 60%. "The issue is not to create recent part-time jobs,but to ensure that working women increase their percentage," he said in a recent interview with several German-language newspapers. While Switzerland is a country where the proportion of women in employment (more than 80%) is among the highest in Europe, or it is also at the top of the ranking in terms of women employed part-time,just behind the Netherlands. + How work responsibilities contain shifted for women and men over the ...
Source: swissinfo.ch