Objective
FAMCAREER addresses persistent gender inequalities in parental careers that continue to undermine gender equality, inclusive labour markets and family well-being across Europe. Despite major EU efforts to improve work–life balance, mothers still experience career interruptions, reduced working hours, slower progression and wage penalties, while fathers’ careers are far less affected. These inequalities extend beyond employment and pay, shaping poverty risks, health, subjective well-being, relationship quality and children’s outcomes.
FAMCAREER develops an interdisciplinary life-course framework linking labour-market inequalities and family well-being, focusing on how career trajectories and childcare arrangements evolve after childbirth. Moving beyond an individualised perspective, the project adopts a dyadic and intersectional approach that captures linked lives within couples and shows how gender inequalities interact with class, migration background, family diversity and workplace conditions.
Methodologically, FAMCAREER combines comparative longitudinal administrative and panel data, linked employer–employee data, survey experiments with workers and employers, and qualitative longitudinal couple interviews across gender and welfare regimes. This mixed-method design opens the “black box” of parental and employer decision-making and connects micro-level family dynamics to meso-level workplaces and macro-level policy contexts. It also enables more robust evidence on how career and well-being inequalities emerge, accumulate and can be reduced.
FAMCAREER delivers four major innovations: (1) a dynamic, relational and multi-layered approach to parental careers and family well-being; (2) unique comparative longitudinal quantitative and qualitative data infrastructures; (3) systematic integration of workplaces as drivers of inequality; and (4) a stakeholder co-created interactive Policy Toolbox to identify effective policy and workplace measures for groups and contexts.
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- social sciences sociology social issues social inequalities gender inequality
- social sciences sociology gender studies gender equality
- social sciences economics and business business and management employment
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine obstetrics childbirth
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HORIZON.2.2 - Culture, creativity and inclusive society
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HORIZON.2.2.3 - Social and Economic Transformations
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL2-2025-02-TWO-STAGE
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