… in all areas, despite progress in recent decades. In the health domain [1] , these include major disparities in life expectancy and self-assessed health status. There are also large gender differences in health-impacting behaviour. Men tend to engage more in risky …
… many other aspects of a person’s life. This includes their health. The burden of unpaid care is increasingly regarded as a determinant of health. Policies promoting women’s participation in the … leave entitlements – link to lower levels of gender inequality in health (Palència et al., 2017). As discussed in …
… upwards trend in the proportion of men studying education, health and welfare, humanities and the arts has plateaued, as … care responsibilities at home. Tackling gender norms and inequality in this domain could have major benefits not only … empirical evidence highlights how education impacts health by affecting behaviour, including the use of …
… a serious concern for the EU. Underlying causes of gender inequality in the domain of money are diverse and often … income, are crucial social determinants of the health of both women and men. A higher income supports improvement in health, and better health enables an individual to earn a …
… between paid and unpaid work, and between the economic and health spheres. Critical to people’s lives, work also impacts well-being and health through social, physical and psychosocial hazards, … Better quality of work is related to better individual health (Barnay, 2016; Henseke, 2018), and precarious …
… serious challenges. We are living not just a public health crisis, but also an economic and social crisis. … in the domains of work, money, knowledge, time, power and health. It also addresses the spike in violence against women … and men in society have borne the brunt of the impact. Health, the thematic focus of this report, explores an …
… also explored the 2021 special focus of the Index: health. We dove into the effects of the coronavirus pandemic … looked at the topics of mental and sexual and reproductive health. Read more about the Gender Equality Index 2021 Agenda … on public heath, disease prevention, health promotion, and inequality reduction. She has conducted research for …
… Index during an online conference. This year, the topic of health is high on our agenda. We are taking a close look at how gender affects health and access to health services. Our focus is on mental health and sexual and …
… are given a score from 1 to 100, where 1 is for total inequality and 100 is for total equality. The scores are … six core domains: work, money, knowledge, time, power and health, and their sub-domains. The Index has two additional … inequalities. The Gender Equality Index 2021 focuses on health in relation to gender equality. It covers mental …
… Technology-based solutions were at the forefront of public health strategies to contain the pandemic. Assistive … at risk (e.g. of falling or isolation), monitoring health conditions through sensors, monitoring daily life … life expectancy, they spend fewer years living in good health than men, and are more likely to develop health …
… all while providing the latest medical information to health professionals (Jiang et al., 2017). However, medical … implementing and evaluating the application of AI in health policy can result in existing health and gender inequalities being overlooked, or new …
… qualifications in which women tend to work, such as in the health sector (EIGE, 2018d). In 2015, the average monthly … while direct gender discrimination may have a role in pay inequality, other factors are also at play. Studies often … women with care responsibilities, and those with poor health. A study of the Amazon Mechanical Turk platform showed …
… their limits, burning out and severely harming their health and personal relationships (Pérez-Zapata et al., … have negative consequences for work–life balance, health and well-being (Ropponen et al., 2019). There is a …
… the immediate impacts on victims’ mental and physical health, this is also likely to have broader labour market … losing vital income or exposing themselves and others to health risks [8] . Initial evidence suggests that platforms … [10] ttps://voxeu.org/article/covid-19-inequality-and-gig-economy-workers [11] For a more detailed …
… and expanded dominant patterns of gender segregation and inequality (Howcroft and Richardson, 2009). Read more More … a mix of intellectual and social tasks. For example, some health, education and social service occupations dominated by …
… The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged health systems and affected the health and lives of innumerable people, both directly and … to die from COVID-19 than infected women (BMJ Global Health, 2020). A similar trend was seen in the SARS outbreak …
… Examination of the Gender Equality Index confirms that good health and healthcare are not enjoyed equally by all women … and impact one of the main indicators of self-perceived health (Figure 23). Recent evidence suggests that certain … for dental care services have a narrower margin of inequality in access to dental care (Palència et al., 2014). …
… period. Although its score of 88 points sees the domain of health [1] ranked the highest of all six domains, progress … United Kingdom. The subdomain measuring equal access to health services had the highest score and showed most rapid … (Figure 22) . Figure 21. Scores for the domain of health and its subdomains (2018), and changes over time …
… young women and men (19 p.p.), covered by the domain of health [4] . Figure 17. Shares of workers engaging in social … in youth. Analysis of data from the international Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey highlights … for example owing to care responsibilities. [4] EIGE, ‘Health in European Union for 2019’ ( …