The massive presence from now on of women in the sphere of paid work is accompanied for them by a very important working time within the family. The recourse to the concept of « parental time » makes itpossible to better measure the inequalities of division of work between men and women....

With an always increasing participation of women in the labour market, which is strongly close to the men, France makes figure as an exception in Europe. Because the French women are the champion as regards fertility rates, whereas, precisely, they are very active professionally. How to explain...

At the moment when the papy-boomers will start to leave to retire and where possible problems of shortage of the labour force point in the years to come, how France position does to ensure the demographic renewal necessary to the economic performance? Women have an main role to play to take up...

Whereas the professional equality is moving, in particular through the" Charter for the equality between men and women " between the government and the social partners, which future takes shape between men and women? Where of it is one difference between men and women, when one speaks about the...

Work-family balance is today a crucial question in France and in Quebec, because of the demographic challenge, challenge of employment (quantity but also quality) and of a new sociopolitic context. New actors emergent indeed on the political scene in the field : companies, trade unions,...

With an increasing participation of women in the labour market and the transformation of the ways of life into couples, the families with two workers are now a model dominating. It is then legitimate to wonder whether a new distribution of roles is set up, men taking from now on more...

Our developed countries are today in view of a major challenge : to preserve sufficient fertility rates at all costs to ensure the economic and social development in the long term, therefore a level of increasing employment, while at the same time possible problems of shortage of labour are...

In the case of the comparative societal analysis, the methodological problems are not simple methodological questions but of real theoretical questions. One will take the example of an international comparison relating to the division of the paid work and unpaid, to show how should have been...

The communication takes support on the data produced, within the framework of the Program France and Québec exchanges on the conciliation work-family and the role of the intermediate actors, by the national institutes of demographic statistics and employment (ISQ for Quebec, the INED and INSEE...

For ten years, significant evolutions have marked the family practices because of demographic changes (increase in the number of divorces and single-parent families), because of social changes (assertion of the status of women, search for equality) and because of institutional changes (crisis of...