International Labour Organization: Gender Promotion Programme: “The Programme has developed a knowledge base and tools addressing emerging gender and employment issues, and undertaken advocacy, advisory services, as well as technical cooperation activities promoting more and better jobs for women and men.”

International Review of Leave Policies and Related Research, 2006:  “The report is the latest product from an International Network on Leave Policy and Research and contains national audits on leave arrangements in 22 countries (including maternity leave, paternity leave, and the availability and use of parental leave.)"

To access the report in PDF format, click here: http://www.dti.gov.uk/files/file31948.pdf.

Promoting Personal Work-Life Effectiveness: Singapore's Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports started a Work-Life Unit to encourage family-friendly workplaces and to assist workers in managing their work and home lives. The initiative won an AWLP Work-Life Innovative Excellence award in 2005.

Working Time and Work/Life Balance in European Countries: “The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions’ Establishment Survey on Working Time and Work–Life Balance 2004–2005 set out to map the use of a variety of working time arrangements in companies, to assess the reasons for their introduction and their impact. This report… focuses on aspects such as flexible time arrangements in general, overtime, part-time work, nonstandard working hours, childcare leave and other forms of long-term leave, phased and early retirement and company policies to support work-life balance.