Interesting that in Germany the East-West divide is very much visible, with the progressive womens role in the former GDR still resulting in good employment rates for women today, whereas countries like Poland with a strong ressurgence of catholicism fare much worse.

I question the assumption behind this map, which is the idea that men and women must have work at the same rate and anything else is an aberration that needs to be addressed. The issue is more subtle than that.

I'll speak from the perspective of a father who quit his job to raise his small children, knowing that it is complete career suicide (I worked in tech).

In my view a problem occurs when somebody wants to work and is unable to, as well as when somebody wants to quit working and is also unable to do so. And while there are some general trends where for example women often quit (paid) work for a few years to raise their families, that is only a problem when they would rather not, but this simplistic map (and narrative) doesn't shed any light on that.

Likewise, how many fathers out there would love to raise their small kids but don't because they know they will be destroying their careers to a degree that their female peers will not? This map does capture this issue, but the simplistic narrative that women sacrifice their careers to raise their children does not, when in practice the damage to their career is much less than a man doing the same thing.

Want a useful map? Poll people to find out why they are working instead of quitting, rather than having preconceived simplistic assumptions about what "is right".

Just fuck colorblind people in particular.

i mean. Who the fuck has thought:" yes thats a perfect contrast for the two sides of the scale"

Is this EVERYONE who is unemployed, or everyone who is seeking employment but is currently unemployed?

In the dark green areas are there more women employed than men?

the female employment rates still lag behind the male rates

I hope this is not seen as "women do not work as much as men" or it ignores unpaid care work:
Countries that do not have enough childcare facilities, such as kindergartens and schools that do not end in the middle of the day, rely on women not working full time. The same goes for care for the elderly and disabled, and then there is unpaid community work. On top of cultures that still think men should not do any care work or household chores.

Green countries do a lot to enable women to go to work full time, but still rely way too much on women accepting more of unpaid care work on top, than men. COVID was overcome a lot by putting even more unpaid work on women's shoulders, when childcare facilities and schools closed, it also showed how many families were relying on grandparents to take care of the children when these had to be protected and could not do this care work anymore.

Germany ist still divided, because in the East the women were very much needed as workers, so the DDR provided close by, free childcare facilities for every child, school was the whole day and they gave women one day of the month free from work because they realized they did more care work than the men and needed time for that too (it was a dictatorship and childcare was also used to indoctrinate the children, not painting the DDR in good light here, just looking to explain the divide), women also had good chances on the career ladder ...
In the West in the long years of the CDU being in the government, there was still the idea of you being a bad mother if you do not stay at home, childcare wasn't made available as much as needed and school ended mid day for most schools, not to mention not enough done to give woman equality in the work environment, but given a lot of incentive for women to be stay at home mums. Now the same party wants more women to work full time because our industry suffers and of course there is no word about their part in it being the way it is.

A bit of number play:

Assuming men work continuously between the ages 20 and 64, and all women do so as well, except for a short time where they do not work at all, then 5% of unemployment means 26.4 months of not working. That's just over two years of difference in working time in this age range. A reasonable time to stay at home due to pregnancy and baby care in my opinion.

I’m not really sure that we should be inferring much based on the results on this map. It seems reasonable to me to make an argument that locations with a higher degree of religiosity tend to have less women in their workforce. Is that a problem for those people? I don’t know, I’m not them.

My personal beliefs about the workforce have jack-shit to do with what’s going on in highly religious countries.

Does it account for maternal leave? What about part time employment?

Interesting, that Tyrol is the best state in Austria, even tho it's the most catholic and conservative one

WTF is going on in Spain?

Personally I think the solution is obvious. We need to provide care workers with income because it's a fucking job (and a half)

@genfood Ahh, lovely. Another map where I'm so glad to see my country top again 🔝🔝🔝