Press release No. N 017 of 5 March 2021
- Employment rate of mothers was a good 18 percentage points lower than that of fathers
- 66% of all mothers in employment worked part-time, while the proportion of fathers was only 6%
- 87% of employed lone parents were women
- Women very often work in occupational sectors affected by the coronavirus crisis
WIESBADEN - The coronavirus pandemic is a big challenge for working parents in particular. In Germany, three in four mothers (74.7%) with a least one child aged under 18 years were in employment in 2019. This is reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) to coincide with the International Women's Day on 8 March. The relevant rate has increased in the past ten years: in 2009, it amounted to only 66.7%. However, women with children are still far less frequently employed than men in the same family situation. The proportion of working fathers with at least one child aged under 18 years remained almost unchanged in the same period; it was 92.9% in 2019.
