With an increasing participation of women in the labour market and the transformation of the ways of life into couples, the families with two workers are now a model dominating. It is then legitimate to wonder whether a new distribution of roles is set up, men taking from now on more...

Our developed countries are today in view of a major challenge : to preserve sufficient fertility rates at all costs to ensure the economic and social development in the long term, therefore a level of increasing employment, while at the same time possible problems of shortage of labour are...

In the case of the comparative societal analysis, the methodological problems are not simple methodological questions but of real theoretical questions. One will take the example of an international comparison relating to the division of the paid work and unpaid, to show how should have been...

The communication takes support on the data produced, within the framework of the Program France and Québec exchanges on the conciliation work-family and the role of the intermediate actors, by the national institutes of demographic statistics and employment (ISQ for Quebec, the INED and INSEE...

For ten years, significant evolutions have marked the family practices because of demographic changes (increase in the number of divorces and single-parent families), because of social changes (assertion of the status of women, search for equality) and because of institutional changes (crisis of...

Within the redeployment of Welfare state regime started in France for several years, some activities have tended to professionalize, thus generating employment and social protection. The situation of the maternal assistants seems symptomatic of this phenomenon. Indeed, the maternal assistants...

The reconciliation work-family, objective posted within the framework of the European strategy known as of Lisbon at horizon 2010, approaches a phase of assessment today. Promoted at the origin like means of guaranteeing the professional insertion for women, in a total objective and of long term...

Research aimed to analyze the role of the social actors, in France and in Quebec, in the governance of the conciliation. At the end of research, we propose the track of a strategy renewed around the concept of flexi-security, in a new and widened meaning. Thus, while the flexi-security of...

A l'heure où les papys boomers vont commencer à partir à la retraite et où pointent d'éventuels problèmes de pénurie de main-d'œuvre dans les années à venir, comment la France se positionne-t-elle pour assurer le renouvellement démographique nécessaire à la performance économique...

Avec une participation croissante des femmes au marché du travail et la transformation des modes de vie en couple, les familles à deux actifs sont maintenant un modèle dominant. Il est alors légitime de se demander si une nouvelle répartition des rôles se met en place, les hommes prenant...