… women in the EU were disproportionally more engaged in unpaid care work in 2017. Almost 38 % took care of children, … is the primary reason for economic inactivity or part-time work. As much as 10 % of women, compared to 0.5 % of men, …
… effectiveness, not least because of barriers to accessing work and earning a decent income. The risk of poverty rises … pensions they receive. Although women’s shouldering of unpaid care duties is often perceived as a ‘family’ choice, … explicit societal awareness of the financial impact of unpaid duties, a burden primarily borne by women. It also …
… responsibilities has hardly changed. The bulk of this unpaidwork continues to fall on women. That makes it harder for them to juggle work and personal life, which impacts on their earning …
… The Index measures gender equalities in the domains of work, money, knowledge, time, power, health and violence, as … Index. The special focus for this, the 2019 edition, is on work—life balance, an issue of high EU political importance. … balance cuts across three broad areas: paid work, unpaidwork (care), and education and training. It presents …
… it implies the negotiation of boundaries between paid and unpaidwork (Hochschild, 1997), as well as the negotiation of the … gender stereotyping, domestic and care work (mostly unpaid) is associated with women, and paid work with men. As …
… for Gender Equality (EIGE). “Women are using flexible work arrangements to juggle work and family life but this is rarely the case for men. Our … lower level and lower paid jobs, work more (both paid and unpaid) hours, take longer career breaks, and are more likely …
… inequalities between women and men in access to resources (work, money, power, health, well-being, security, … the area of labour. This is about distribution of paid and unpaidwork, and about the horizontal and vertical gender … what kind of changes? Will the distribution of paid and unpaidwork change as a consequence of the proposed policy? …
… such as the economic effect of uneven distribution of unpaidwork and its net economic effect on women, as well as the … collect information on topics such as the distribution of unpaidwork between women and men. This data is required to …
… surveys measuring perceptions and opinions [13]. EIGE’s work on gender statistics and indicators EIGE hosts a Gender … indicators (e.g. average number of hours spent on unpaid domestic work by sex) and qualitative indicators (e.g. … men: gender employment gap (20–64 years); time spent in unpaid care work per week. Objective 2 — reducing the gender …