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B: Family@Work

Employees with children 700 %
Figure 19 shows the percentage of staff in different university groups with 600 %
children up to the age of 18. Overall, 23.2% of staff members have chil- 500 % Figure 20
dren of this age. The highest proportion is among professors (41.7%) and Employees with children according to
administrative staff (40.2%). The proportion is lowest among support staff 400 % university group and working hours as of
— student assistants (0.2%), research assistants (3.7%) and trainees (0%). Of 300 % 01.12.2021 (source: TUD/D2)
all employees with children, 41.7% work part-time and 58.3% work full-time,
which roughly corresponds to the proportion of total employees working 200 %
part-time and full-time (44.3% and 55.7%, respectively). Figure 20 presents a 100 %
breakdown of the working hours of staff with children by university group.
0 %
research assistents
professors academic staff administration staff technical staff „workers“ student assistents
part-time full-time

40 %
Figure 19 30 % 2 Fokus: Family
Percentage of employees with children Parental leave and care leave
up to 18 years of age as of 01.12.2021 20 % During 2021, parental leave was taken a total of 406 times. Since a person
(source: TUD/D2) may take several shorter instances of parental leave during the course of
10 % a year, one such person would figure into these statistics more than once.
In this respect, this figure does not tell us how many individual employees
0 % took parental leave during the course of a year. Of these 406 instances of
students assistants
academic staff
professors administration staff technical staff "workers" trainees research assistants TUD parental leave, 311 were taken by academic staff (76.6%). It is significant that
56 % of all periods of parental leave were taken by male staff members. This
proportion roughly corresponds to the total proportion of male employees
at the university. Of these 228 periods of parental leave, 84% were between
one and three months in length. When parental leave was taken by women,
61% were seven months or longer in duration. On average, male staff
members of the TUD took 2.7 months of parental leave in 2021, and
female staff members took 8.5 months.

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