Research on the position of women in the Netherlands

Abstract

In the seventies many changes took place in the position of Dutch women in education and living conditions as well as in the participation of women in the labour force. The Social and Cultural Planning Office publishes regularly about these changes. There are quite some difficulties, however, in selecting appropriate data and developing indicators to measure the changes. Main problems are the lack of a theoretical model on the basis of which summary measures could be drawn up and the defective operationalization of the emancipation policy.