parttime work prevalent in jobs mostly occupied by women and linked to family obligations and care may also play a role in horizontal segregation data for the netherlands is in fulltime equivalent data for switzerland on secretarial positions also include technical positions despite some important variation between oecd countries from less than in switzerland to in the united states us equal employment opportunity commission to nearly in poland women consistently occupy less than half of public service decisionmaking positions on average accounting only for of senior managers across oecd countries thus on average in oecd countries of middle managers are women although there are important crosscountry variations with some countries estonia slovenia portugal and poland not only achieving gender parity but also having a majority of women in this occupational category