Men and women employed on fixed-term contracts involuntarily

Almost 15% of women employees and around 14% of men were employed in jobs with fixed-term contracts in the EU as a whole in 2005. A significant proportion of these worked in fixed-term jobs because they could not find a permanent job. The focus here is on the women and men concerned, on their relative numbers, their age, the activities and occupations in which they are employed and the typical duration of their contracts of employment.