market segregation

The two usual motivations for multi-licensing are license compatibility and market segregation based business models.

We must also pose the question of the reasons for labour market segregation in a number of Member States.

Since discrimination is embedded in the labor market and affects its functioning, and that discrimination creates basis for labor market segregation and for occupational segregation, labor markets institutions and policies can be used to reduce the inequalities.

We can break this vicious cycle by acknowledging that non-paid work is work indeed, by encouraging women to work and gain their economic independence, by attacking the structural causes of labour market segregation, and by paying attention to women's problems when reforming our pension schemes.