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[quote=Anonymous]As a French woman, I speculate these reasons may be why the French percentage is so low for women (at least in larger cities):

1) France has amazing, subsidized and in many cases free creche (daycare), with fantastic teachers and communities, and fabulous food. Children can start going at just a few months old.  Hours are good too, full day.  This allows more women to go back to work.  Less children and mess at home.

2) French schools go all day, the entire academic day is like extended day end time.  Many get out anywhere between 5-6pm.  This is on purpose, to support working parents.  Also children do not bring lunch to school.  Everyone eats school lunch.  So no one is packing lunch for kids.  And no one is running around to after school activities since school gets out late.

3).  Frozen grocery stores (like Picard) are pretty popular.  Think of it as an entire store of awesome Trader Joes frozen meals, apps, desserts, etc.  So for the busy parent, since their kids usually got a 4 course healthy and home cooked meal at school for lunch, they don't stress about the dinner, at least during the week.  Often times it is something from Picard, or a rotisserie chicken picked up from the butcher or a soup.

4).  Breakfast isn't a big deal, people grab nutelle tartin or fruit or whatever.  So basically mom and dad don't have to do much cooking.

5). Housekeepers/cleaning ladies are very common and very affordable and often very good.  For a pretty decent and fair price, you can get your entire flat deep cleaned twice a week and that includes washing, drying and ironing your clothes and sheets. No shit.  Twice a week.

So as for cooking, cleaning, laundry and childcare, women have it pretty well in France.[/quote]

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