… of EIGE's Director Carlien Scheele at the International Women’s Leadership Forum on Women, Peace and Security 20 Years after UN Resolution 1325, … story in shaping the peace and security agenda is still a young one. And while the situation requires a lot more work, …
… of the European Union on 5 March 2021. With International Women’s Day just around the corner, and the EU set to roll … think about how their plans will impact equality between women and men. However, gender equality should not only be … work-life balance conflicts, especially for women with young children aged 0-5 years. The situation for lone parents …
… or indeed re gressed -- when it comes to equality between women and men in recent history. With all this data, we … we look at every aspect of gender equality, from how much women and men earn at work to who sits on the boards of … not seek help when they need to, with tragic consequences. Youngwomen develop eating disorders because they are …
… for higher rates of mental health problems among girls and youngwomen may be related to permanent concerns over physical … eating disorders commonly emerge during adolescence and young adulthood, and they mostly affect girls (WHO, 2020a). …
… Men are less likely to seek help for mental health than women [1] . Young men are among the least likely to ask for help from … help. It may disproportionately affect minority groups, young people, men, and those working in the military and …
… hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Across the EU, women have consistently higher rates of internalising … the most common sources of disease burden in children and young people, particularly adolescent girls (Baranne and … 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 …
… addressed. Understanding how poor mental health affects women and men, and the role that gender norms and relations … chronic stressors and often neglect their own health (Young et al., 2020). Research in Europe shows that being a … The gender gap for good mental health is highest among young adults aged 18–24 years, with men scoring 74 points and …
… status of a population (Johnson et al., 2020). On average, women in the EU are expected to live until 84 years of age, … more likely than women to die from suicide, although more youngwomen than young men attempt suicide (Miranda-Mendizabal et al., 2019) …
… While violence affects all women, some groups face a higher risk (EIGE, 2020a). The 2019 … in online harassment and abuse, particularly against youngwomen and girls . In the EU, 13 % of women have overall … prevalent, at 25 % (FRA, 2021). Consequently, girls and youngwomen (aged 15–18 years) considerably restrict what …
… work for parents (see Chapter 4) affected families with young children the most (Eurofound, 2021b). As a result, … unpaid care duties has caused acute work–life tensions for women and men (Craig and Churchill, 2020; EIGE, 2020b, 2020g, … particularly fathers who lost jobs and men in couples with women in essential work (EIGE, 2021c), the impact has been …
… and other chronic conditions [1] . About 91 % of women with children spend at least an hour per day on … are among those aged 18–24 years (20 p.p.), only 19 % of young men spend an hour on cooking and housework a day, compared with 39 % of youngwomen (Figure 15). As most young people of this age …
… 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, … lost their job, EIGE research (2021c) shows that it was youngwomen, aged 15–24 years, who fared worst in the first …