all these factors contribute to a relatively wide gender gap in working hours and eamings among german couples with children there need to be institutional changes in the provision of care for young and schoolaged children cultural changes and changes in the labour market if german women are to have the opportunity to increase their working hours andor participate in fulltime work it finds that german women are more likely to work parttime than women in most other oecd countries and that germany has large withincouple gaps in working hours and eamings