… in the European Union and shows trends in the domains of work, money, knowledge, time, power, health and violence. … can help both women and men combine private life with paidwork. However, I would like to stress that telework … skills if they want to take advantage of these new, well-paid jobs requiring a high level of digital skills. In the …
… challenges to the spotlight. The importance of care work, whether paid or unpaid, and its unequal distribution between women … Gender Equality Index is on digitalisation, the future of work and most importantly, the consequences for gender …
… see gender balance for another 125 years. Quotas clearly work. But for some reason, they still make people uneasy. … progression. And even when women are able to return to work after having children, even when they have managed to … some 7.7 million women in the EU are kept out of paidwork because they are providing care. To put that into …
… Carlien Scheele delivered this speech at the “Remote Work: Challenges, Risks and Opportunities" conference on the … parents, of cooking three meals a day. This work is not paid and you won’t find it in countries’ balance sheets, but … work also eats into the time you’re trying to reserve for paidwork. Our latest findings show that during Covid, …
… be cared for at some point in our lives. Professional care work is one of the lowest paid occupations in the EU, often accompanied by poor … and of the pandemic, care workers are some of the lowest paid people in the EU. Their low salaries are a reflection of …
… in retail, accommodation, residential care, domestic work and clothing manufacturing suffered heavy job losses, … 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 …
… 1957, we’ve been signed up 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 …
… the pandemic, with 7.7 million women unable to take up paidwork because they were taking care of children and ageing … This can, of course, make it difficult to find time for paidwork -- as was the case for 7.7 million women before the …
… COVID-19 pandemic showed that: Due to lockdown measures, paid employment declined, while the amount of unpaid household work and childcare increased significantly. Even though men … during the summer of 2020, women did not return to paid employment to the same extent that men did. This could …
… The working environment for those in paid jobs often causes chronic stress and may lead to burnout … labour market, women’s over-representation in precarious work and the continued difficult articulation between paid and unpaid work, work-related stressors are likely to …
… and those whose physical presence is still required at work (EIGE, 2021c). Most governments in the EU established … are disproportionately exposed to infection risk at work. Also at increased risk are those working longer hours, … have faced acute tensions from balancing the demands of paid and unpaid work when support services and social …