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Emotional Intelligence videos for mothers and their families

31.03.23

Emotional intelligence is a vital skill that helps people build healthy and fulfilling relationships, maintain their mental health, make good decisions, and develop leadership skills. Unfortunately, e [...]

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MMM seeks academic partner for new EU Survey

06.12.22

We are searching for an academic partner for an EU survey on issues concerning mothers to be used as a lever for change. [...]

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MMM responds to EU Commission’s Public Consultation on Gender Pay

08.06.20

On May 27th, Make Mothers Matter responded to the EU Commission’s Public Consultation: “Transparency on pay for men and women”. The objective of the consultation was to gather views of stakehold [...]

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#MothersMatterforEU

20.05.19

European Union, Brussels - in the lead up to the recent EU elections, our EU delegation went behind the scenes at the heart of decision making - the EU Parliament - to get reactions from MEPs about wh [...]

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MMM responds to EU consultation on access to social protection

15.01.18

European Commission - Self-employed workers and groups of workers in new forms of atypical employment do not have sufficient access to or are excluded from social protection. MMM has participated to c [...]

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Joint call from civil society to support the swift progress on Work-Life Balance Directive

07.12.17

Today MMM with 9 other civil society networks and organisations representing millions of children, young people, adults and families across the EU issue a joint statement asking the Council to continu [...]

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A step forward: New work-life balance package to improve the lives of working parents

26.04.17

Brussels - The European Commission has put forward an ambitious and comprehensive proposal on “Work-Life balance for working parents and carers”. [...]

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International Day for Maternal Health: Let’s talk about post-partum depression

11.04.17

This year’s International Day for Maternal Health we want to shed a light on depression, one of the most common mental health problems in Europe.   [...]

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MMM at EIGE’s Consultation on Gender Discrimination in Education, Training and the Labor Market

02.03.17

MMM presented the perspective of women mothers by highlighting how the permanence of the unpaid care workload is an obstacle to their full integration into the labor market and to equal opportunities. [...]

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European Pillar of Social Rights

17.01.17

MMM has joined a group of NGOs to issue a statement calling on MEPs to honour their promises to reconcile work and family life under the "European Pillar of Social Rights" [...]

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Latest News from MMM and its Network

Maternal Psychological Wellbeing: A Challenge and a Unique Opportunity

13.01.26

Wednesday 28 January 2026 | 15:15 – 17:30 GMT London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) – Live broadcast #MaternalWellbeingLSE Maternal mental health is one of the most pressing - and most overlo

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Unlocking the Power of Care: Skills, Equity, and Social Transformation

09.01.26

UN New York – Join us online on 5th February for an official side-event to the 64th UN Commission on Social Development, which will focus on how harnessing the skills developed through the unpaid work of care

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Care, the overlooked dimension of social development and justice

08.01.26

UN New York – In a written Statement submitted ahead of the 64th UN Commission on Social Development, Make Mothers Matter highlights a crucial yet still largely overlooked dimension of social development and

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The Future of the Right to Education: Make Mothers Matter at UNESCO to Bring Parents’ Voices Forward

15.12.25

UNESCO, Paris – On the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the 1960 Convention against Discrimination in Education, UNESCO brought together the global community at an International Symposium on the Future of

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Protect the Ambition: MEPs Must Safeguard Funding for the EU Child Guarantee

09.12.25

MMM together with its partners of the EU Alliance for Investing in Children, welcomes the recent vote by the European Parliament’s EMPL Committee, which firmly supports substantial and dedicated funding for t

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She Does It All: The Devaluation of Caregiving in EU Work–Life Balance Policy

28.11.25

Across Europe, mothers carry out vast amounts of unpaid care work that keeps families and societies functioning—yet much of this labour remains largely invisible in EU policy. A new study shared with Make Mot

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