Balance

Motherhood and childcare can limit women's ability to work and gain economic benefit. The more women's working times and duties are compatible with their personal time and engagements, the more likely it is that they will be able to manage both labour and family. In 2014, the Equal Opportunities Commision of the Municipality of Padua, in collaboration with the Statistics Department of the University of Padua, started a project known as the Balance project to investigate the services and the organisational issues that could ease the family lives of female workers. A survey was carried out in 2014 on a sample of women who worked either in public or private sectors located in the City of Padua. The survey was aimed at understanding the family situations of women employed in public bodies and the services they considered useful to improving work-family bilance.