… done by women. Men also increased how much they did at home, but women still clocked many more hours on the tasks … shifted to telework. The rates of people working from home are higher in households with children and particularly … access to affordable, professional care services that can help tackle the rising care needs expected in the EU as the …
… can affect their promotion and pay. And education doesn’t help, with the pay gap biggest for the most highly educated … market? Pay transparency legislation would certainly help. Employees would know the true value of their work and … age. This would also help close the gender pay gap. In the home, men will need to share the care load more equally so …
… When it comes to those who provide professional care at home, 83 % are women. And that’s just the figures that are … that many of us present here today have hired someone to help us at home. To clean our house, for example, or to take care of our …
… pandemic has been particularly devastating for nursing home residents. Miralles et al. (2021) found that the highest … has led to an unprecedented shift in remote working to help slow spread of the virus (ILO, 2020). However, … regular interpersonal communication, teamwork and customer service tasks (Pouliakas and Branka, 2020). It also estimated …
… sexual. Incidents were mostly perpetrated in a woman’s own home (37 %) by a family member or a relative (32 %), and, in … and Spain (20 %) [3] . For violence against women at home, rates are as high as 68 % in Portugal, 64 % in Estonia, … To redress the situation, EIGE developed 13 indicators to help Member States meet the minimum requirements of the …
… of people in the EU spending virtually all their time at home. For those caring for others, the situation has led to … restrictions largely preventing external care services or help from grandparents, friends and neighbours, care has been … mainly from within the family. The introduction of home schooling as a new and additional form of unpaid work …
… all children had access to the same level of resources for home schooling, such as laptops, reliable broadband … inequalities have widened since. School and childcare service closures have increased the care burden and created … new forms of unpaid care for working parents, including home schooling. Across the EU, it is mostly women who have …
… 693-709. Barone, G., and Mocetti, S. (2011). With a little help from abroad: the effect of low-skilled immigration on … EIGE. (2020d). Gender equality and health service infrastructures (978-92-9482-386-1). Retrieved from … EIGE. (2020e). Gender Equality and Long-Term Care at home. Retrieved from …
… as important. Mental illness symptoms observed by health service providers should be considered as a potential … among young women. Stigma remains a barrier to seeking help for mental health problems, affecting men more than … The pandemic has also been devastating for nursing home residents. Working-age women in the EU have been greatly …
… many parents lacked the digital skills or time needed to help their children. Adding to these barriers is the fact … working despite increased care responsibilities at home. Tackling gender norms and inequality in this domain …
… obliges governments to provide women facing violence at home with alternative accommodation. Estonian courts have … awareness raising campaigns to let victims know about the help available. Greece, Finland and Portugal addressed … the European Parliament and the European External Action Service will be lit up the same day. The theme of this …
… independent living in any care setting (residential, home or community-based). Policy solutions are being … et al., 2008). In practical terms, AsT allows improved service provision by identifying individuals at risk (e.g. of … (Martínez-Alcalá et al., 2016). Such technologies can also help caregivers to monitor the status of frail old people. …
… for many workers power relations are now between ‘service provider’ and ‘service purchaser’ – that is, between … spaces with no third party present, such as ride-hailing, home-sharing or personal and household services (Overseas … also prevent workers from accessing information that would help them to assess the safety of a gig before accepting it, …
… is typically assumed to allow work to fit better around home and family responsibilities (Eurofound, 2020c). There is … computers) to work outside the employer’s premises can help to facilitate better work–life balance. Workers report … depends on how it is implemented: while regular home-based teleworkers have a better work–life balance than …
… of ICT transformed the world of work by enabling home-based and other forms of remote labour, such as … work varies significantly depending on the type of service provided and the work management practices of … ride-hailing work with caring responsibilities and may help to explain the gender pay gaps (Cook et al., 2018) and …
… of migrant care workers (mostly women) return to their home countries ahead of border closures, has highlighted the … disability over an extended period of time, depend on help with daily living activities and/or [are] in need of …