Research on the position of women in the Netherlands

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Oudijk, Corrine¹

Note: [1] Corrine Oudijk is a sociologist, graduated at the Rotterdam School of Economics (now Erasmus University). Since 1980 she has been a research associate at the National Social and Cultural Planning Office. She was responsible for the ‘Social Atlas of the Women 1983’ and published also about unpaid labour and the consequences of the reduction of working time. She thanks Ko Oudhof of the Central Bureau of Statistics for his comments on an early version of the article.

Abstract: In the seventies many changes took place in the position of Dutch women in education and living conditions as well as in the participation of women in the labour force. The Social and Cultural Planning Office publishes regularly about these changes. There are quite some difficulties, however, in selecting appropriate data and developing indicators to measure the changes. Main problems are the lack of a theoretical model on the basis of which summary measures could be drawn up and the defective operationalization of the emancipation policy.

DOI: 10.3233/SJU-1985-3404

Journal: Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 363-374, 1985