… reminded us just how difficult and dangerous it is for the women who live with a violent partner. The important matter … and their families at risk to care for patients. Women are potentially more at risk of infection because they … such as informal caring for people with a disability or older people. As we have seen during this pandemic, our …
… Scheele delivered this at an event of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) titled We are strong: Women leading the fight against Covid-19 on 4 March 2021. The … obvious: we need carers to raise children, to take care of older people and those with disabilities, and those who are …
… be paid the same, regardless of who’s doing it. And yet, women are still paid on average 14 % less per hour than men. … Our data shows that the gender pay gap actually widens the olderwomen get, with having a child and getting married both … Last, affordable care services, for children and for older people, would help both women and men in the workplace. …
… In the EU, 95 % of domestic cleaners and helpers are women. When it comes to those who provide professional care at home, 83 % are women. And that’s just the figures that are declared. I am … no longer be able to provide free-of charge care for their older relatives in the home. Instead, the state would have to …
… in society, which promotes an unequal status for men and women. Femicide is broadly defined as the killing of a woman … and can take different forms, such as the murder of women as a result of intimate partner violence; the torture … partner femicide, sexual murder, femicide of womenolder than 65 and racist and homophobic femicide. Based on …
… hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Across the EU, women have consistently higher rates of internalising … SUDs. Source: GBD Study 2019. Authors’ calculations. Older age groups are at risk of specific types of mental … 2018). An estimated 5 % of people aged 60 years or older in the EU suffer from dementia, and women are about 1.6 …
… As health limitations increase with age and affect women and men differently, any analysis of ill health must consider age, gender and the severity of limitations. Women suffer greater health limitations than men in all age … limitations affect daily activities are higher among older groups, to women’s detriment (Ogg and Rašticová, 2020). …
… their current health status (Lorem et al., 2017). Overall, women tend to report worse health than men (Nesson and … 2016). In a 2002–2004 study of 59 countries globally, women reported significantly poorer health than men on all … are particularly relevant to the health and well-being of older people, especially women, whose income in old age …
… COVID-19 deadlier for men, ‘long COVID’ more likely for women There are considerable variations in how data is … 60), infections in women far outnumber those among men; at older ages, infection is more common in men. The highest … 33 % of men were hospitalised. For those aged 80 years or older, the rate of hospitalisation reached 31 % for women and …
… different everyday life activities [1] . The respondents, women and men alike, ranked health services as the most … several population groups, such as lone parents, older people, migrants and people with disabilities, and … calculation with microdata, EU-SILC, 2019 (IE, IT, 2018). Older adults with disabilities and those living in rural …
… restrictions on movement to contain COVID-19 have trapped women and girls at home with their abusers. If victims of … to vulnerable and marginalised groups. This includes olderwomen, women and girls with disabilities, migrant … and ‘stay-at-home’ orders exacerbate factors that put olderwomen at particular risk of violence, for example …
… data, even for the most severe forms of violence against women. Of all the indicators used to gauge the extent of this … . The killing of olderwomen is a prevalent form of femicide as a result of … by Dobash and Dobash (2015) shows that most murders of olderwomen are committed by men from the neighbourhood. …
… care, the other two being childcare and long-term care for older people and people with disabilities and other chronic conditions [1] . About 91 % of women with children spend at least an hour per day on … children. The latest available data shows that employed women spend about 2.3 hours daily on housework; for employed …
… subdomain, of care activities, measures gender gaps in women’s and men’s involvement in the care and/or education of their children, grandchildren and older and disabled people. It also measures their involvement … and housework. The second subdomain explores how many women and men engage in social activities. Concretely, it …
… In a highly digitalised world, women and men need a wide range of knowledge, skills and … Commission, 2015b). Yet only 17 % of women and 16 % of men older than 15 years of age were in formal or informal … or in retirement, learning rates are in single digits. Older people, economically inactive women and men, and people …
… and (dis)ability influence income disparities between women and men. While income gaps are less visible for couples … with the result that the gender gap is greatest among older people. Women aged 65 years or older receive 1.934 PPS less than men. Known as the gender …
… in health Gender differences in health status Overall, women tend to report worse health than men. In the 27 Member … Several population groups, such as lone parents, older people, migrants and people with disabilities, and … is more frequently mentioned by people aged 65 years or older than by the general population (40 % of women and 34 % …
… unpaid care during the COVID-19 crisis – particularly by women – has put a spotlight on long-standing gender … since 2014. The gender gap among people aged 16 years or older was 925 purchasing power standard (PPS) [2] in 2019, … The proportions of women and men aged 15 years or older in formal or non-formal education and training remained …