… face in employment, income, education, power distribution, unpaid care and health. Therefore, it has an essential place … inequalities experienced by women in the fields of work, health, money, power, education and time use. From this …
… of gender equality. The amount of time spent in paid work, rest and recreation, or caring for others has knock-on … a person’s life. This includes their health. The burden of unpaid care is increasingly regarded as a determinant of … women are still expected to assume a greater share of unpaid care of children, older people and people with …
… interlinked. Motherhood and the unequal distribution of unpaid childcare between women and men make it harder for women to commit more time to paid work (EIGE, 2019e). The overall share of women in part-time work is greater since they balance paid jobs and unpaid care work to a greater extent than men (see Chapter 2, …
… It looks at gender equality in the EU in six core domains: work, money, knowledge, time, power and health. It finds that … and that greater equality is achieved in both paid and unpaidwork. Workers in the care sector, who are mostly women and …
… for Gender Equality (EIGE). Across the EU, the bulk of unpaid care work is done by women, with 92 % providing unpaid care … men. Employed women also do more than their fair share of unpaid care work. Across the EU, they spend 90 minutes more …
… paid women Gender stereotypes linked to the value of work are partly to blame, with salaries in a profession going … in gender stereotypes for them to have an impact. At work, the effects of sexist expectations can already be … and informal expectations around who is responsible for unpaid care work . Although around 77 % of men aged 20–49 are …
… recipients, but even more for caregivers. Caring (paid or unpaid) for an old person takes a considerable toll on the … their professional career to reinvent themselves as unpaid caregivers when a member of the family needs … could help to decrease the disproportionate amount of care work for which women are responsible and thereby reduce …
… allow more flexibility in where and when people work. Flexible working arrangements typically relate to how … by blurred boundaries between leisure time and unpaid care, with phenomena such as contamination (leisure … schedules, often involving a considerable amount of unpaid time spent searching for work and the need to be …
… two closely related processes: increased flexibility of work and the emergence of new forms of work. Increases in … is often the only option for people to combine substantial unpaid care responsibilities (primarily taken on by women) … reduce gender inequalities in the distribution of unpaidwork (and thus contribute to gender equality in the …
… Apart from its potential to replace human work, digitalisation offers a range of new opportunities, … suggests that there is considerable demand for outsourcing unpaid domestic work via platforms. This could support the … market is held back by their disproportionate share of unpaidwork may decide to outsource this work, often to …