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The European Parliament Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality of the European Parliament Legal Affairs requested this briefing paper in the framework of its own-initiative legislative report on Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Private and Public Sectors in the EU.

This infographic aims to present the current state of affairs of maternity and paternity leave in EU Member States. Most EU countries also have an additional period of parental leave, but parental leave is not covered in this infographic.

Upon request by the FEMM Committee, the Policy Department C: Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs has developed a number of figures visualising duration of and compensation rates of previous incomes during maternity, paternity and parental leave in the Member States of the European Union. The figures are based on data published notably by the European Commission and the International Labour Organisation between 2012 and 2014 which were cross-checked with data collected by the European Parliamentary ...

Index: - Fully paid maternity leave of 18 and 20 weeks - impact assessment - Proposition of a methodology to determine and quantify the benefits of maternity leave - Benefits of maternity / parental leave in the eu27 - a review of the literature - Fully paid paternity leave of 2 weeks - impact assessment - The consequences of the extension of the maternity leave on women's participation on the labour market

Maternity/Parental leave and the relevant benefits constitute important means through which welfare states provide support to families to contribute to social reproduction, to guarantee a good start in life for children, to protect children’s and mothers’ wellbeing and more recently to address current demographic and economic problems and help families achieve work/family balance, a declared EU priority. This note presents the important benefits and the crucial role maternity/parental leave plays ...

This study gives a view of four areas of social security benefits as they affect women's labour market prospects and reconciliation of work and family life as well as freedom of movement of household with care responsibilities, the situation with respect to rights and the effects of fiscal systems on reconciliation of work and family life.