The Second round table “Rights for moms” was dedicated to unemployed mothers. Representatives from the government, civil sector, and independent institutions have participated in the event. Through the round table, we have tackled several topics and have identified a couple of problems that unemployed mothers are facing in the labor market.
Nenad Jevtović, the director of the Institute for Development and Innovation, presented the existing data regarding the position women and unemployed mothers hold in the labor market. During the presentation, he pointed out that in 2019 Serbia had 64.399 mothers, out of which 53.769 were economically active, 10.630 economically inactive out of which 6.237 were unemployed housewives.
The participants have significantly contributed to the discussion and recognizing the main challenges that unemployed mothers are facing in the labor market.
As the main outcomes, we have concluded that it is needed to design policy proposals aimed at the parents returning to work after the birth of the child and child care, creating gender-sensitive analysis, and using different sources of information such as Questionary about the labor force, Demographic statistics and the register of the National Employment Service.
