Women, work and family – staff

Several key publications are listed in this section. They deal with human resources, equality between women and men, reconciliation of professional and family life, etc.

• Publications of the Federal Office for Gender Equality (FOGE)

• Guide to Social Security (2025, in German, French and Italian)

  Ratgeber Sozialversicherungen (2025) BSV, BAG, SECO

  PDF1.05 MB19 November 2025

• SME handbook ‘Work and family’ (2025) - Measures to promote work-life balance in small and medium-sized enterprises (in German)

  KMU-Handbuch "Beruf und Familie" State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO

  PDF3.15 MB17 November 2025

• Study on women with children returning to work and remaining in employment (2023, in German and French)

  State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO

  PDF3.27 MB17 November 2025

• Family-friendly working conditions 2020: What are the cantons and cantonal capitals doing? (in German and French)

  Familienfreundliche Arbeitsbedingungen 2020: Was machen die Kantone/Hauptorte?

  PDF1.51 MB9 November 2021

• Occupational benefit plans (2nd pillar) - Vested benefits: don’t forget your retirement assets

  Federal Social Insurance Office FSIO

  PDF591.16 kB8 July 2021

• SME Handbook: Work and Family Life (2016, German and French)

  KMU-Handbuch Beruf und Familie; Staatssekretariat für Wirtschaft (SECO)

  PDF4.37 MB14 November 2019