Research...carried out in 2010 [in the Czech Republic]...revealed a lack of childcare facilities was forcing women to take long career breaks. Women said there was a lack of nursery care for very young children, combined with a shortage of part-time jobs with flexible working hours. Their strategy to cope with this involves a long career break followed by a return to non-flexible full-time work...The Czech Republic has one of the lowest percentages of part-time jobs in the EU...This means the majority of women return to a ‘normal’ full-time working regime with more or less fixed working hours immediately following a period of maternity leave, and makes the reconciliation of work and family life relatively difficult.