… Even though men doubled their share of household work, women still shouldered the bulk of the load. The rise in … also increased work-life balance tensions, especially for women. When the economy reopened during the summer of 2020, women did not return to paid employment to the same extent …
… 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 and misogynist slaying of women; killing of women and girls in the name of “honour”; …
… whereby workers in particular sectors are predominantly women or men. According to 2020 data, only four in ten … example of a sector that still employs relatively few women (22.2 % of the workforce compared to 46.1 % of all … been no discernible progress over the past decade, with women making up 22.3 % of the workforce in the transport …
… hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Across the EU, women have consistently higher rates of internalising … Analysis of GBD [1] data shows that in 2019 36.7 million women and 34.1 million men aged over 20 years in the EU … represent 20 % and 18 % of the total adult population of women and men, respectively. There are important gender …
… addressed. Understanding how poor mental health affects women and men, and the role that gender norms and relations … among those over 18 is slightly higher for men than for women. The average score in Europe is 66 points for men and 62 points for women. Women, as well as showing lower levels of mental …
… 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 … countries (Boerma et al., 2016). In the EU-27, 66 % of women and 71 % of men perceive their health to be good or …
… COVID-19 deadlier for men, ‘long COVID’ more likely for women There are considerable variations in how data is … (Global Health 50/50, 2020). Early in the pandemic, women were more likely to get tested than men, as priority … that vulnerable workforce groups, such as women, older employees, foreigners and those with a lower level of …
… different everyday life activities [1] . The respondents, women and men alike, ranked health services as the most … older people, migrants and people with disabilities, and women in particular, stand out as highly vulnerable to unmet … and treatment, resulting in men being less likely than women to visit medical practitioners. A study in the United …
… social determinant of health, shaping and reproducing how women and men engage in health behaviour. Research often frames women as as engaging in health-promoting behaviour, whereas … regardless of gender , despite WHO recommendations. Women are less physically active but eat more healthily …
… restrictions on movement to contain COVID-19 have trapped women and girls at home with their abusers. If victims of … different intersecting forms of discrimination against women and heighten the risk of violence against women … providers to ensure work–life balance for their own employees, and their health and safety. The EIGE study …
… 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 … cooking and housework a day, compared with 39 % of young women (Figure 15). As most young people of this age live with …
… Poverty or social exclusion risks were already higher for women than for men in the EU before the pandemic (EIGE, 2020g). Women were already more likely than men to be in unpaid, … or temporary jobs. The COVID-19 crisis is likely to worsen women’s economic situation, as their over-representation in …
… and (dis)ability influence income disparities between women and men. While income gaps are less visible for couples … lone fathers, but highest income gap is between single women and single men, with women earning 2.706 PPS less than men (Figure 9). Over a …
… in its gendered impacts across the sectors of employment. Women are over-represented among ‘essential’ workers, … to, for example, particularly high burnout levels among women healthcare workers with children younger than 12 years, … the crisis have also been concentrated in sectors in which women make up the bulk of the workforce. During the first …
… population groups, and consistently disadvantageous for women. As Figure 6 shows, the largest gender gap – 27 p.p. – … in 2019 was among couples with children, with 62 % of women, compared with 89 % of men, in this family grouping … employment gender gap, of 21 p.p., is among foreign-born women and men. This is followed by people with low …
… scores for the financial and economic situations of women and men progressed faster. From 2018 to 2019, the … points). Despite increased educational attainment of women and men in the EU, the gender divide in some fields of …
… of this progress is due to outstanding developments in women’s participation in economic and political … data on time spent on unpaid care and social activities by women and men. The domain of work, despite having the third … risk of poverty and equalising income distribution among women and men, overall, has been negative since 2010. The …
… in health Gender differences in health status Overall, women tend to report worse health than men. In the 27 Member States of the EU (EU-27), 66 % of women and 71 % of men perceive their health to be good or … have a greater effect on the activities of daily living in women than in men. The greater likelihood of women …