• Social benefits and programmes (flexible benefit plans, workplace childcare programmes, career-break schemes and maternity leave programmes) will be less prevalent in countries with higher levels of masculinity (cultures with high femininity and that value quality of life and caring for people are more likely to be concerned with employees’ personal and social needs and life outside work); and be more prevalent in countries with high levels of uncertainty avoidance with an emphasis on predictability and security in career planning and workday scheduling. The results indicate a relationship between masculinity and a lower use of flexible benefits, workplace childcare, careerbreak and maternity leave. The link with uncertainty avoidance is not well supported.