So, yet another survey has been published showing that most Dutch women don’t want to work full time, are not interested in having a glittering career and prefer being financially dependent on their husbands.

Nowhere in Europe do so many women have part time jobs as here. And this latest survey by the SCP shows they like it that way.
Perhaps then, the government should just give up on its efforts to get women to work longer hours. What else can it do? There have been huge advances in childcare facilities, generously subsidised by the taxpayer.
There are all sorts of projects to boost flexible working hours. And what is the result? Women like to work shorter hours so they can take care of the kids, socialise with their friends and do the housework.
Short of dragging them out of the kitchen by their apron strings and plonking them in front of a computer, what else can the government do?
The most interesting fact is that only four out of 10 young childless women are working full-time. It’s just not done.
No wonder career-orientated women in Holland find it hard to get ahead. When those young women who do want to get to the top start knocking on the glass ceiling, they will probably find one of their less ambitious sisters, duster in hand, ready to polish away their fingerprints.