Slightly more Dutch women are working full-time, men are working a little less

There has been a marginal increase in the number of women in the Netherlands working full time, national statistics agency CBS said on Thursday.

In 2016, 25% of women worked at least 35 hours a week, and this has now risen to 27%, the CBS said. By contrast, the percentage of men with a full time job has gone down from 74% to 72%.

Nevertheless, last year, just over half the Dutch working population had what is considered a full time job of at least 35 hours. Ten years ago, 54% of the population worked full time.

The self employed are far more likely than people in regular jobs to work long hours. Nearly one third say they work at least 40 hours a month, compared with just 8% of the regular working population.