IV. Work-Family Life Balance reviews with local governments to assess whether the pricing standards and fees for quasi-public childcare services are appropriate, and to study and adjust the subsidy standards for counties and cities with less funding and where parents have less income.
Long-term Care Leave 19. There is a significant gender gap in the impact of long-term care on caregivers’ participation in the labor force. According to a study by the Executive Yuan, 5.67 percent of the population with longterm care needs live alone, 3.82 percent are cared for mainly by institutions, and more than 90 percent have other primary caregivers. Among primary family caregivers, 61.82 percent are women and 37.91 percent are men. Of these female family caregivers, 37.66 percent no longer work because they need to provide care, compared to 23.44 percent of men.27 Recommendation 12 The government should share the responsibility of long-term care and encourage men to participate so that no one (especially women) will be forced to leave work due to caregiving.28 Financial 27 Executive Yuan, Analysis of Factors Causing the Female Labor Force to Quit: Case Study of Long-term Care Burden, 2020. This commissioned research project indicates that women who have other roles in the household, such as childcare and long-term care responsibilities, experience greater difficulty in returning to the workforce.
28 The MOHW’s Survey on the Status of Senior Citizens: Primary Family Caregivers, 2017, points out that the rate of women quitting their jobs because of caregiving is 43.93%, compared ¯21¯