A Dutch friend mentioned that Social Security eligibility in the Netherlands is based on paying Social Security tax on your earnings. If she was out of the Netherlands for more than two years, she lost her Social Security coverage.
This is just speculation: Dutch women work part time to pay Social Security tax and thereby remain eligible for various Social Security benefits.
Research by Jan van Ours, an excellent labour economist, shows that Dutch women are happy with their part-time work and only about 4% want to increase their hours of work to full-time.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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