… for men. Because there were less women than men in the labour market to begin with, employment declined for both … assumption that caring is still women’s work, even when paid, contributes to its undervaluation. When thinking about … skills if they want to take advantage of the new, well-paid jobs becoming available, which require a high level of …
… to the principle that equal work of equal value should be paid the same, regardless of who’s doing it. And yet, women are still paid on average 14 % less per hour than men. At the European … equal than others’. How to clear all this bias out of our labour market? Pay transparency legislation would certainly …
… the pandemic, with 7.7 million women unable to take up paid work because they were taking care of children and … already seeing larger shares of women than men leaving the labour market completely. Out of people who were unemployed … This can, of course, make it difficult to find time for paid work -- as was the case for 7.7 million women before the …
… done by women. The same is true of unpaid domestic labour, which still falls largely on the shoulders of women. … will have been the only way you’ve been able to take up paid work. Because otherwise you would have been doing it … apart. Yet domestic work includes some of the most under-paid and under-valued jobs in the labour market. For example, …
… the summer of 2020 brought more men than women back to the labour market. Men recovered 1.4 million jobs, women only … the major hurdles women face in returning to the labour force at any time, but which have become more … index of total actual hours worked reveals that time in paid jobs fell by 6.1 index points for women and by 4.3 index …
… EU, 2019) Source: Authors’ calculation, European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS). The European Union Statistics … migrant women are usually limited to working in low-paid care jobs (Addati, 2018; EIGE, 2020c, 2021d). FRA (2019) … women are considerably less likely than men to be in paid work, with the gender gap ranging from 19 p.p. in …
… major ongoing gender equality challenges in the EU labour market. Progress in the subdomain of participation has … between women and men because of the gender imbalance in paid and unpaid work. More women than men in the EU have lost … gender inequalities in the time women and men spend on paid and unpaid work and in recreation. Housework is the most …
… aspect of gender equality. The amount of time spent in paid work, rest and recreation, or caring for others has … of health. Policies promoting women’s participation in the labour force and easing their burden of care – such as … pandemic, the crisis has underlined the importance of both paid and unpaid care work for societies and economies to …
… and that greater equality is achieved in both paid and unpaid work. Workers in the care sector, who are … economic shocks created by COVID-19 are likely to derail labour market progress on gender equality, and contribute to future disparities: 'Gender segregation in the labour market has left women disproportionately exposed to …
… There is a direct link between the unequal division of unpaid care in households and gender inequality in the labour market, according to a study by the European Institute … unpaid care work is done by women, with 92 % providing unpaid care several days a week – as opposed to 68 % of men. …
… gap , as fields dominated by men tend to be more highly paid than those dominated by women. Even when women are … . Computer programming used to be dominated by modestly paid women Gender stereotypes linked to the value of work are … keep 7.7 million women in the EU out of the labour market [21] . Women still take on the lion’s share of …
… through online collection, has seen much attention paid to the quantity of data available rather than their … et al., 2020). Such cases have already occurred in the labour market: recently, several US companies were found to …