Brussels, 15/07/2002 (Agence Europe) - According to statistics released on Friday by Eurostat, in 2000 in the EU, around 25% of women employees and over 20% of men usually worked on a Saturday. The proportion of women and men usually working on a Sunday is 10%. The percentage of employees usually working on Saturdays in the EU were almost equal in 1992 and 2000: over 20% for men and around 25% for women. For regular Sunday working the percentage of employees increased from 8.8% for both sexes in 1992 to 9.9% for men and 10.7% for women in 2000. Looking at irregular weekend work in the EU, in 2000, the percentage of men and women working sometimes reached 25.2% and 16.8% respectively on Saturdays. On Sundays, there were 16.6% of men and 11.8% of women working sometimes. At the EU level, in 2000, women were more affected than men by regular weekend working. This was also the pattern at the national level in eleven countries for Saturdays and in ten for Sundays. On the other hand, men more often worked occasionally in all countries and for both days, except for Belgium on Sundays. The Statistical Office of the European Communities in Luxembourg (Eurostat) has revealed that in hotel and catering, health and distribution are the sectors with the highest proportion of employees working at weekends.