… week and next, the 68th annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68), is happening in New York. CSW is the UN's largest annual gathering on gender equality and women's empowerment. It brings together government officials, … of gender and any other characteristic such as migrant status or life events including the birth of …
… that remains heavily gender-segregated. - being more women than men in sectors characterised by lower pay, status, … particularly hard consequences for disadvantaged groups of women, including younger and older women, single parents with dependent children, and women from migrant communities or other minority groups. Young women …
… resources, as well as empowerment and visibility of both women and men in all spheres of public and private life. In … policies - and specific measures for the advancement of women. However, more efforts are required: gender gaps in the … for the Vulnerable Groups: Access to Labour market for Migrantwomen, Single Parents and other Minorities …
… of factors that may play out differently for men and women at every stage of the migration cycle . While in many cases migration can improve the conditions of women’s life by providing more income and social status, in … migration Migration and gender in the media Healthcare and migrantwomen Gender and migrant family relations Gendered …
… Working women earn on average 13% less than men for doing the same … fewer pension entitlements and other social benefits. And women continue to pay the price for this well into … men since the outbreak of Covid-19. For young women of a migrant background, they faced even higher risks of …
… during the pandemic than before. But more than half of women with small children say they are completely or mostly … of household chores between partners changed – with most women reporting having a higher share of housework on their … than men. That impact is even greater for women with a migrant background – who experienced a greater increase in …
… pandemic among other ongoing crises and challenges, young women and men were hit the hardest. From rising unemployment rates – particularly among those with a migrant background – to persisting gender inequalities in the …
… on Equality forum, which was a part of the conference Women's economic empowerment: key to gender equality hosted … centuries been moulded according to a male model. While women have always worked, it has until quite recently only … has usually been done by women, usually by women with a migrant background, often outside the formal labour market, …
… COVID-19 deadlier for men, ‘long COVID’ more likely for women There are considerable variations in how data is … (Global Health 50/50, 2020). Early in the pandemic, women were more likely to get tested than men, as priority … EU countries [9] . Fasani and Mazza (2020) estimated that migrant workers constitute 13 % of all key workers and are …
… different everyday life activities [1] . The respondents, women and men alike, ranked health services as the most … the EU (Burns et al., 2019). Ethnic minority groups and migrant populations are seen to be over-represented among the … older people, migrants and people with disabilities, and women in particular, stand out as highly vulnerable to unmet …
… 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, … situation for specific groups of people, such as migrantwomen. The employment rates for women aged between 15 …
… population groups, and consistently disadvantageous for women. As Figure 6 shows, the largest gender gap – 27 p.p. – … in 2019 was among couples with children, with 62 % of women, compared with 89 % of men, in this family grouping … it difficult to access better-quality jobs. For example, migrantwomen are usually limited to working in low-paid care …
… in health Gender differences in health status Overall, women tend to report worse health than men. In the 27 Member States of the EU (EU-27), 66 % of women and 71 % of men perceive their health to be good or … have a greater effect on the activities of daily living in women than in men. The greater likelihood of women …
… unpaid care during the COVID-19 crisis – particularly by women – has put a spotlight on long-standing gender … different degrees, both overall and in the extent to which women and men are relatively affected, greater divergence on … including older women, women and girls with disabilities, migrantwomen, homeless women and victims of trafficking. The …
… 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 … is predominantly female, mostly composed of women from a migrant background and often undocumented (Trojansky, 2020). …