Metatone here is the link to the INSEE percentage table by age group. They first have men then women followed by the total. The age group above 30 is 30-49 (they don't have small age group breakdrowns) with:
79.0% employed
9.6% unemployed
0.0% military
0.4% retired
0.2% student
10.8% other not in the labor market
100,0% total

I worked from the population total by individual age to create the table & graph and since after 30 your not really youth anymore I left that data out.

Not every woman who gets married or has children leaves the labour market, but essentially yes...

Except that about 4% of men are "out of the labour market". You could assume that a similar fraction of women are out of the labour market for the same reasons as the men.

The other salient feature of the diagrams is that men join the labour market earlier and, although a larger fraction of women stay in education longer, they have higher unemployment rates.

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To add to what Migeru already replied. Women are more likely than men to engage in unpaid work such as housework and childcare (not to take away from the fact that some may be sunning on some beautiful beach somewhere but I'd say that's the exception). My favorite example is if a man marries his full time housekeeper she goes from being part of the labor market to being out of the labor market even if she continued to do the exact same work. Another example is the case of a couple I know. He is an eye doctor and she does all the accounting for the office. He's self employed and she does unpaid accounting work for his office. If she wasn't his wife she's be an employee or he's have to do the accouting himself.

Other reasons individuals could be considered out of the labor market is if they are physically unable to work, but there I would not expect a big difference between men & women.

Sorry had to repost this since the first time I included width 400 by mistake which made the table unreadble.

Here are some statistics on employment rates of men & women with children that illustrate what Migeru & I already replied.

The first table (with the bolded #3) presents the percent of labor market participation (Taux d'activite), employment and unemployment (chomage) of women (femme) and men (homme) in 2003 based on the number of children (enfant) they have. First row is no children, the 2nd to 4th rows are 1,2 and 3 children ages 1 month to 3 years. The following 1,2,3 are for children ages 3 or more and the last row in bold is the total for all couples.

The second table (#4) presents the time spent on different tasks on an average day for women & men in hours & minutes. The rows are:
·    Physiological time (that would be sleep and maybe exercise)
·    Work, studies and job training
·    Domestic time (housecleaning & shopping, childcare,  gardening and the famous French bricolage which is what you do with items you get from the hardware store)
·    Free time
·    Travel time

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You can find data on the Eurostat website and also on the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.

For more info, you can look at the European Institutions And Resources Links in the European Tribune Wiki section.

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