Differences in patterns of representation of women and men in the labour market, public and political life, unpaid domestic work and caring, and in young women’s and men’s choice of education.
… committed itself to a ‘dual approach’ towards achieving gender equality. This approach involves mainstreaming a gender perspective in all policies, while also implementing … facilities, support female entrepreneurship, combat gendersegregation in certain professions and address the imbalanced …
… Scheele delivered this speech for the press at EIGE's Gender Equality Index 2020 conference on 29 October 2020. … I’d like to start by saying a few words about EIGE’s Gender Equality Index, which we publish annually. The Index … lifelong learning due to family responsibilities. Gendersegregation is one of the unresolved challenges in our …
… The EU’s founding treaty includes a commitment to end the gender pay gap. Since 1957, we’ve been signed up to the … 14 % less per hour than men. At the European Institute for Gender Equality, we collect data and try to find out why we … seen as worth less than men. So called ‘horizontal gendersegregation’, where women are concentrated in poorly paid …
… Despite efforts to improve gender equality, EU labour markets are still characterised by persistent horizontal segregation, whereby workers in particular sectors are … data, only four in ten workers in the EU are employed in a gender-balanced sector, where the workforce comprises at …
… or musculoskeletal conditions [1] . With entrenched gendersegregation in the labour market, women’s over-representation … Finland and Slovenia, there appears to be no significant gender gap. However, women and men may experience burnout …
… of the pandemic on health: poor mental health, a rise in gender-based violence and the provision of SRH services in a … for all Member States, hindering a comprehensive gender analysis of the pandemic’s toll. Men are more likely … in low-level positions, such as nurses, and occupational segregation is a key reason why women nurses leave the …
… to 2019, there was little change between 2018 and 2019. Gendersegregation in education remains a major block to gender equality in the EU. Not only has there been no …
… children, single people and lone parents suffer striking gender inequalities. Lone mothers earn 2.125 PPS [1] less … income inequalities widen, with the result that the gender gap is greatest among older people. Women aged … years in employment because of the motherhood penalty, job segregation, differences in pension systems, and work …
… Achievements in gender equality from 2010 differ considerably across domains … Spain (+ 24.3 points). Between 2018 and 2019, progress on gender balance in decision-making was fast-paced in Spain … in all Member States in 2018, largely because of gendersegregation in employment. Only Malta (+ 1.4 points) and …
… Main findings The Gender Equality Index score for the EU is 68.0 points out of … in total since 2010. Even that minimal progress on gender equality is threatened by the impact of the COVID-19 … subdomain of participation has slowed, and strong gendersegregation in the labour market continues. This is …
… 2018, when it increased by 0.5 points. The subdomain of segregation and quality of work made even less progress in … 0.5 points overall. Such creeping gains in the area of gendersegregation in the labour force underlines the fragility of gender equality progress and the intractability of the …
… in the work, money and power domains, and is essential for gender equality. Educational attainment continues to steadily … both young women and men, with women now outpacing men. Gendersegregation remains the key challenge in this domain. The …
… is a serious concern for the EU. Underlying causes of gender inequality in the domain of money are diverse and … ‘Domain of work’, and Chapter 5, ‘Domain of time’). Job segregation also contributes to income inequality, as women … than 60 years, and despite a wealth of policies to redress gender inequality of income, women still earn less than men, …
… COVID-19 crisis threaten to roll back recent progress in gender equality, including an overall trend of upward … had been made in countries with lower levels of gender equality. The regressive consequences of COVID-19 on … equality, and contribute to future disparities: 'Gendersegregation in the labour market has left women …
… engineering and mathematics [1] . Such horizontal gendersegregation is partly responsible for the gender pay gap , as fields dominated by men tend to be more …
… harassment [3][4] . Less than half of EU citizens believe gender equality has been achieved at work. Source: … an organisation’s image 94 % of EU citizens believe gender equality is a fundamental right Source: Eurobarometer … European Union Footnotes [1] Torre, M., ‘The flip side of segregation: men in typically female jobs’, London School of …