In Germany, as in other OECD countries, few parents1 share paid work equally and full-time employees, be they men or women, often work longer than 40 hours per week." Such long hours complicate mothers’ efforts to combine full-time work with parenting, an issue that is exacerbated in Germany by the relatively short days in pre-, primary and secondary school (Chapter 3). In part for that reason, German mothers who work part-time work shorter hours than in other countries and they face difficulties to revert to full-time work as their children get older. As for their male partners, their long hours curtails the time that they spend with their families and the amount of unpaid work that they do at home.