… EIGE's Director Carlien Scheele delivered this speech at an event … 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 …
… EIGE's Director Carlien Scheele delivered this speech at the … are also able to hear how well EU countries are supporting women who have already been cut. This is the only way we … continue to be a part of visiting the doctor for some women. And while taking to communities, we heard over and …
… EIGE's Director Carlien Scheele delivered this speech at the 10th … 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 …
… 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 … etc. This section provides information about EIGE’s research initiatives on femicide. EIGE supports Member …
… rates of mental health problems among girls and young women may be related to permanent concerns over physical … social media use. The ‘beauty myth’, by which girls and women are subjected to unachievable standards of beauty, … and self-confidence with competition with other women, is reinforced in online spaces (EIGE, 2019b). …
… . With entrenched gender segregation in the labour market, women’s over-representation in precarious work and the continued … 15 % and 25 % of respondents in different cross-cutting studies(Eurofound, 2018b). The same Eurofound study found …
… hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Across the EU, women have consistently higher rates of internalising … adolescence. Gender-specific data on pre-school children’s mental health is scarce. More evidence on gender … 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 … et al., 2016) . Similar results have been found in other studies, with single parents suffering worse mental health … slightly more than it does men. The difference in women’s mental well-being index score between the lowest and …
… status of a population (Johnson et al., 2020). On average, women in the EU are expected to live until 84 years of age, … roles of women and men (Hoffmann et al., 2018). Men’s lower life expectancy reflects their thinking on … and Slovakia (OECD/European Union, 2020). Similarly, studies show that women educated to tertiary level live …
… As health limitations increase with age and affect women and men differently, any analysis of ill health must … daily activities are higher among older groups, to women’s detriment (Ogg and Rašticová, 2020). For example, among … significant gender gaps in health literacy [4] . Several studies show that women are more likely to have general …
… self-assessed health or self-perceived health) is a person’s subjective evaluation of their current health status (Lorem et al., 2017). Overall, women tend to report worse health than men (Nesson and … 2014; Siegrist et al., 2016). For example, a review of 27 studies found that temporary work explained between 11 % and …
… a widespread phenomenon in the European Union, affecting women disproportionally – in 2012, one in three women aged 15 … sexual violence. Although a price cannot be put on women’s lives and suffering, estimating the lost economic output … violence in the EU is accompanied by a critical review of studies carried out within the EU to estimate the costs of …
… from COVID-19 will be felt for years to come. The pandemic’s impact has been very unequal across the EU and over time. … COVID-19 deadlier for men, ‘long COVID’ more likely for women There are considerable variations in how data is … of the prevalence of long COVID are emerging, with some studies finding that the phenomenon could affect half of …
… different everyday life activities [1] . The respondents, women and men alike, ranked health services as the most … reasons (Wang et al., 2013). The fact that women’s greater familiarity with the health and social services … are largely unstudied (Pulver et al., 2016). Many studies have focused on how healthcare practices based on …
… social determinant of health, shaping and reproducing how women and men engage in health behaviour. Research often … gap in physical activity across the EU is 5 p.p. in men’s favour. Estonia is the only Member State where slightly … 8.3 % in Romania to 22 % in Austria for women. Several studies have identified factors linked to smoking and adverse …
… 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 … during the pandemic. Since it began, media and women’s organisations have reported a sharp increase in demand for …
… While violence affects all women, some groups face a higher risk (EIGE, 2020a). The 2019 … the preceding 5 years among specific groups. These include women self-identifying as lesbian, bisexual or ‘other’ … also showed that disability substantially increases women’s vulnerability to violence, especially from a close or …