… women continue to be under-represented in senior roles, paid less than men and disproportionately subject to sexual … underpins the unequal way women and men are treated at work. While overt sexism is prohibited under EU law, many … value of gender equality. Further reading Sexism at work: How can we stop it? Handbook for the EU institutions …
… inequalities in the labour market. The bulk of unpaid care work is done by women, and this hinders their access to employment. The paid care sector has a large share of women employees who are … usually make it more convenient for women to opt out of paid employment and care for their families, compared to men. …
… and sectoral segregation, part-time or temporary work, gender stereotypes and norms, difficulties in … underpaid and undervalued. Both women and men are well paid in ICT but the gender pay gap persists Attracting women to well-paid ICT and STEM jobs is seen as an important policy tool to …
… allow more flexibility in where and when people work. Flexible working arrangements typically relate to how … burden of household work, despite also being in paidwork (see Chapter 5, ‘Domain of time’). The rest of this … generally more common among women who work in higher paid jobs or who have non-standard contracts (EIGE, 2018d). …
… Much of the current policy debate about the future of work centres on the increased use of digital technologies and … 2017, p. 7). This does not, however, mean that women are paid equally to men in these jobs. The fact that women have, … patterns of automation (Rubery, 2018). Firstly, the low-paid nature of certain female-dominated occupations (e.g. …
… digital skills open opportunities for access to well-paid jobs for which there is significant demand in the … skills) necessary to thrive in the digitalised world of work. This is particularly evident among older people (aged … between Gender Equality Index scores (domain of work, subdomain of participation, domain of money) and the …
… several key advances in the digitalisation of the world of work. While these can be understood as a continuation of … contributes to the growth of employment in certain well-paid sectors that require advanced digital skills, such as … linked to digitalisation, one usually offering well-paid, high-quality jobs (the ICT sector) and the other often …
… acknowledged as essential to enable people to reconcile paidwork and care responsibilities. This is particularly true for … more likely than men to report difficulties in combining paidwork and care responsibilities [7] , which has clear …
… includes women’s and men’s mean monthly earnings from work and mean equivalised net income (from pensions, … benefits and any other source in addition to earnings from paidwork). The subdomain of economic resources captures women’s …
… Gender equality in the world of work is advancing at a slow pace in the EU in both the short … (Figure 4). On average, the Index score for the domain of work [1] has grown by about 0.2 points per year, reaching … care workers in health services. Another example of a low-paid, female-dominated occupation that became essential …
… decision-making, and policy developments to support work–life balance, there remains a need for more structural … flexible or informal forms of employment are better paid, formalised and covered by social protection. It will … pay), and to contribute to a more balanced distribution of paid and unpaid work among women and men. For such benefits …