for example among european countries the proportion of mothers in fulltime work varies from in the netherlands to in slovenia in addition to countryspecific factors such as public child care support box there are also individual and familyspecific reasons why women choose to work full or parttime changes in labour markets have been powerful factors in growing female labour force participation in oecd countries particularly the development of the services sector and the expansion of parttime work which have enabled a greater proportion of women to work and keep working after they start to have children