The latest short film released on the occasion of Women's Day by the Mária Kopp Institute for Population and Families (KINCS) is about the labor market situation of women with small children, the supports that help them, and the results of Hungarian family policy, the institution told MTI.

According to the statement, women in Hungary have received more and more help in the last decade in order to be able to reconcile their family and work duties.
While only slightly more than half of women between the ages of 20 and 64 worked during the left-wing governments, and their unemployment rate was two and a half times higher than it is now, by 2021 three quarters of them were already employed, exceeding the EU average, they wrote.

It was pointed out that in the last ten years, the employment of women raising three or more children increased the most, and the increase was also significant among women raising children under the age of six. The employment rate of those raising school children is now close to 90 percent.

Women with small children receive significant support in reconciling work and family with the flexible system of childcare benefits, GYED extra, which enables working alongside childcare. The infant care fee, CSED, is now 100 percent of the salary, and its net amount is higher than the previous salary. As a result of the increase in the minimum wage since 2010, the maximum amount of the childcare fee, GYED, has increased more than two and a half times, from HUF 102,000 to HUF 280,000, the announcement reads.

They also wrote about the fact that the kindergarten education provided to all children from the age of three, as well as the renewed and ever-expanding network of nurseries, also help women to work. The number of places providing nursery care has increased by 70 percent since 2010, and now a third of children between the ages of one and three can use the service.

Hungary is a family-friendly country, where it has become easier for women to balance family and work, and thanks to this, both the desire to work and have children increases among Hungarian women - the announcement concludes.

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