… Scheele delivered this at an event of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) titled We are strong: Women leading the fight against Covid-19 on 4 March 2021. The … obvious: we need carers to raise children, to take care of older people and those with disabilities, and those who are …
… be paid the same, regardless of who’s doing it. And yet, women are still paid on average 14 % less per hour than men. … Our data shows that the gender pay gap actually widens the olderwomen get, with having a child and getting married both … Last, affordable care services, for children and for older people, would help both women and men in the workplace. …
… of the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women on 17 March 2021. The event was organised by … European Union, the European Commission and the European Women’s Lobby. I want to start with a mental exercise. Let’s … value to the economy. Children are future taxpayers and older people would be looked after by the state if not by …
… 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 … no longer be able to provide free-of charge care for their older relatives in the home. Instead, the state would have to …
… hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Across the EU, women have consistently higher rates of internalising … SUDs. Source: GBD Study 2019. Authors’ calculations. Older age groups are at risk of specific types of mental … 2018). An estimated 5 % of people aged 60 years or older in the EU suffer from dementia, and women are about 1.6 …
… As health limitations increase with age and affect women and men differently, any analysis of ill health must consider age, gender and the severity of limitations. Women suffer greater health limitations than men in all age … limitations affect daily activities are higher among older groups, to women’s detriment (Ogg and Rašticová, 2020). …
… 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 … are particularly relevant to the health and well-being of older people, especially women, whose income in old age …
… COVID-19 deadlier for men, ‘long COVID’ more likely for women There are considerable variations in how data is … 60), infections in women far outnumber those among men; at older ages, infection is more common in men. The highest … 33 % of men were hospitalised. For those aged 80 years or older, the rate of hospitalisation reached 31 % for women and …
… restrictions on movement to contain COVID-19 have trapped women and girls at home with their abusers. If victims of … to vulnerable and marginalised groups. This includes olderwomen, women and girls with disabilities, migrant … and ‘stay-at-home’ orders exacerbate factors that put olderwomen at particular risk of violence, for example …
… data, even for the most severe forms of violence against women. Of all the indicators used to gauge the extent of this … . The killing of olderwomen is a prevalent form of femicide as a result of … by Dobash and Dobash (2015) shows that most murders of olderwomen are committed by men from the neighbourhood. …
… care, the other two being childcare and long-term care for older people and people with disabilities 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 …
… subdomain, of care activities, measures gender gaps in women’s and men’s involvement in the care and/or education of their children, grandchildren and older and disabled people. It also measures their involvement … and housework. The second subdomain explores how many women and men engage in social activities. Concretely, it …
… and (dis)ability influence income disparities between women and men. While income gaps are less visible for couples … with the result that the gender gap is greatest among older people. Women aged 65 years or older receive 1.934 PPS less than men. Known as the gender …
… unpaid care during the COVID-19 crisis – particularly by women – has put a spotlight on long-standing gender … since 2014. The gender gap among people aged 16 years or older was 925 purchasing power standard (PPS) [2] in 2019, … The proportions of women and men aged 15 years or older in formal or non-formal education and training remained …