Double workload Double workload Click here for the previous index In the Netherlands economic independence of women has been stressed for at least the last 15 years.
More women earn a proper income.
However, besides their jobs most of these women continue to hold the main reponsibility for keeping the house and taking care of the children. The domestic work men carry out is minimal in comparison with the work women carry out. Women from Gelderland observe an increasingly larger group of women who want to combine motherhood with a job. Men can be stimulated more to act as voluntary social workers.