… Professions and pay The perception that women and men have different skills is part of the reason … are concentrated in different professional fields . While women are over-represented in care and pre-primary education, … gender and are projected to require increasing numbers of workers over the coming years [4] . Women earn 16 % less per …
… reducing loneliness and isolation (Iancu and Iancu, 2017). Women are the primary beneficiaries of these technological … Longer life expectancy, combined with the fact that women tend to marry older men, means that they often outlive … It is estimated that, in the EU, only 17 % of social workers who provide home-based professional care to people …
… has become an integral part of the professional lives of women and men in various work circumstances. It is therefore logical that common experiences affecting women in the workplace, such as sexual harassment, are … figures and gender-based violence affecting platform workers. Online abuse against women active in the public …
… levels, the gender pay gap persists. In 2018, on average, women’s gross hourly pay was 14.8 % lower than men’s … opaque wage structures, and undervaluing of women’s work and skills (European Commission, 2009, 2018a, … (%), EU, 2015 Despite earning more than other female workers, women in ICT have lower monthly earnings than men. …
… premises can help to facilitate better work–life balance. Workers report shorter commuting times, greater working time … and to contribute to the achievement of equality between women and men in the labour market. The Gender Equality Index … of some flexible working arrangements, such as women’s ability to set their own working hours. Read more The …
… for companies to modernise their work organisation and for workers to reconcile work with other aspects of their lives. … as a promising way to support further participation of women and certain disadvantaged groups in the labour market … unpaid care responsibilities (primarily taken on by women) with paid employment, and because it can encompass …
… This section analyses the differences in participation of women and men in two quite different types of job … of work has created a growing demand for high-skilled workers with advanced digital skills, apparent across all … This section looks in particular at the job prospects of women and men in the ICT sector, in view of the high demand …
… technologies and their capacity to replace or complement workers in an ever-broadening range of tasks. The spread of … 10 workplaces in the EU (European Commission, 2016b). Yet women continue to use some digital technologies less … Figure 41. Use of ICT at work and activities performed by women and men (aged 16–74) in the EU (%), 2018 Earlier …
… aspects are particularly relevant to the contribution of women and men to the development of digital technologies and … professionals at age 30, by country and gender, 2018 While women outnumber men among tertiary education students (54 % … of women vocational education graduates working as sales workers (EIGE, 2018b). Beyond ICT: women are …
… EU Digital Scoreboard (Digital Economy and Society Index, Women in Digital (WiD)), the following analysis looks at … to advance those skills. Advanced digital skills of women and gender equality go hand in hand The WiD Scoreboard … Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, workers who are successful in penetrating competitive labour …
… and growth or on the challenges it presents for workers, businesses and labour market regulation, paying only … capacity of machines to perform tasks previously done by workers (Autor, 2015; Frey and Osborne, 2017), encouraging … second subsection analyses the employment prospects for women and men within these economic activities, while the …
… men are more likely to die from COVID-19 than infected women (BMJ Global Health, 2020). A similar trend was seen in … other social factors (Gebhard et al., 2020). For example, women participate less in the labour market, but they work as … workforce and are more likely to be front-line health workers, especially nurses, midwives and community health …
… work (European Parliament, 2016). Research shows that for workers, overall time dedicated to paid work has increased, … carried out outside the home, the participation of working women and men is extremely low in some countries and varies … activities [3] reveals important inequalities in how women and men in the EU combine work with other aspects of …
… and care responsibilities. This is particularly true for women with children, who are still expected to shoulder a … forgo adequate care entirely, relying instead on domestic workers in precarious working conditions or providing care … 2020e). Gaps in care services disproportionately affect women as care recipients, as more women than men are …
… situation seems particularly dire for less educated women, where massive gender inequality is coupled with an FTE … poverty and social exclusion (EIGE, 2020a). Many migrant women tend to work as domestic workers, often under informal working arrangements; while …
… driven by increases in the labour market participation of women. Since 2010, the Index participation score has … working life have reduced slightly. For example, in 2010 women’s FTE employment rate was 17.6 p.p. lower than men’s, … in employment in the EU. As of May 2020, around 5 % of workers had permanently lost their job owing to the pandemic, …
… has been noticeable progress in the EU towards increased women’s employment rates, lower risks of poverty for both women and men, improved gender balance in political and … arrangements; for example, it introduced the new right for workers to take at least 5 working days of carer’s leave per …
… was elected in 2019, breaking the long-standing absence of women in the top positions in the EU system. With no woman … have the best gender balance to date, with 12 women (46 % ) and 15 men (56 % ), as Member States … (WHO, 2020d). The overwhelming majority of healthcare workers in the EU are women, who make up 70 % of health …
… labour market specifically, as it raises questions about women’s exposure to the risk of poverty, access to … better distribution of care and household work between women and men. Among the provisions are new or harmonised … such as the right to flexible working arrangements for workers with care responsibilities, carer’s leave, parental …