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Question: Do you think that women should work outside the home full-time, part-time or not at all under the following circumstances? - After the youngest child starts school.
Choices: "Work Full-time" "Work Part-time" "Stay at home" (There was a choice of "Women should decide" for Taiwan, but that is excluded from the analysis)
Data: % of "Work Full-time"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Cyprus61.4%
2 Tajikistan49.7%
3 Slovenia47.7%
4 Portugal46.2%
5 Poland44.1%
6 Uruguay40.8%
7 Israel40.7%
8 Denmark38.4%
9 Finland 37.0%
9 Spain37.0%
11 Norway35.7%
12 Switzerland34.2%
13 Brazil32.0%
14 Bulgaria30.8%
15 Hungary29.8%
16 Netherlands29.3%
17 France29.2%
17 Latvia29.2%
19 Belgium28.3%
20 Slovakia28.1%
21 Russian Federation26.9%
22 Ireland26.0%
23 Philippines25.8%
24 Czech Republic25.6%
25 Japan21.7%
26 United States17.3%
27 Germany16.9%
28 Australia16.1%
29 Chile13.3%
30 Mexico12.6%
31 New Zealand12.0%
32 Austria10.3%
33 Syrian Arab Republic5.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -0.855715 X +6.868
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.156
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -32742.461434 X +48488.729
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.149
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.570584 X +78.537
Correlation coefficient (r)0.051
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.050547 X +1.714
Correlation coefficient (r)0.013
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.277248 X +12.007
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.006
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000