… in women’s employment rates and educational attainment, gender inequalities persist in pay, monthly earnings and income. The EU focuses primarily on the genderpaygap, standing at 16 %, and the gender pension gap, reaching …
… Progress towards gender equality in the EU remains slow. The Gender Equality … employment. This contributes to significant gender gaps in pay and pensions. Such inequalities have particularly dire … less than men; with progress on closing the genderpaygap painfully slow, the feminisation of poverty continues. …
… empowerment is central to realising women’s rights and gender equality. Investing in women’s economic independence … for instance, by reiterating the principle of equal pay for jobs of equal value. It establishes the rights to … EU has strengthened initiatives to tackle the genderpaygap. The 2014 pay transparency recommendation (Commission …
… EIGE’s 2020 research assessing progress towards gender equality 25 years after the adoption of the Beijing … employment. This contributes to significant gender gaps in pay and pensions (see Chapter 3, ‘Domain of money’). Such … gender equality in the labour market (the gendergap in employment, the gendergap in part-time employment and …
… Main findings The overall Gender Equality Index score for the EU in 2018 is … in doubt in the light of the COVID-19 crisis. The gendergap in the full-time equivalent (FTE) employment rate has … labour market, such as gender segregation and the genderpaygap. Platform work poses challenges for the application …
… [1] to inform actions, monitoring and evaluation. Gender equality objective: provide better work- life balance … responsibilities, than men; there is a significant genderpaygap which disadvantages women. An absence of public childcare …
… the EU and its Member States. [1] The EU's approach to gender equality Equality between women and men is recognised … and private life for both women and men. The issues of paygap and organisational diversity are clear priorities for the …
… The tool offers guidance on how to assess gender inequalities and gender needs in EU Funds programmes. … provision and gaps in skills development, the current paygap, the distribution of paid and unpaid work and information …
… References Agentur für Gleichstellung im ESF (2019), Gender Budgeting im Bundes-ESF, Agentur für Gleichstellung im … (DE) European Commission (n.d.), EU Action against Pay Discrimination. Available at: … (2020), Council Conclusions on Tackling the GenderPayGap: Valuation and Distribution of Paid Work and Unpaid Care …
… This section includes practical tools on how to integrate a gender perspective into the EU Funds, using detailed … a coherent gender equality perspective. The tools pay specific attention to work-life balance. From an EU … information on the relationship between the genderpaygap and work-life balance, have a look at this EIGE …
… A new vision for a gender-equal Europe was announced today by Vera Jourova, … This is a major cause of the EU’s 16 % genderpaygap. On average, women do an extra 13 hours of unpaid work …
… The genderpaygap in the EU stands at 16 % and has barely changed in the last decade. In most EU countries, the genderpaygap is slowly reducing but in Malta, Portugal and …
… reduction reveals a general aspiration to close the gap between desired and actual working hours, with a fifth of … 2018; Plantenga et al., 2010; Wheatley, 2017), gender differences on their actual usage remain highly … substantial financial impacts, including gender gaps in pay. In a few Member States (SE, DK, NL), both women and men …
… paid work with other life duties and needs. Traditional gender roles assigning women to care work, paid or unpaid, … on the same footing as men, in turn increasing the genderpaygap and women’s risk of economic dependency and poverty …