… Carlien Scheele delivered this speech at the “Remote Work: Challenges, Risks and Opportunities" conference on the … worse, with women putting in even more hours into their unpaid jobs. Online schooling was work mainly done by mothers. When homes become workplaces, unpaidwork also eats into the time you’re trying to reserve …
… be cared for at some point in our lives. Professional care work is one of the lowest paid occupations in the EU, often … by poor contracts that provide little security. Unpaid care work, the type of work most of us have relied on … really exploded, with online schooling emerging as a new unpaid job predominantly done by women. Men also increased …
… in retail, accommodation, residential care, domestic work and clothing manufacturing suffered heavy job losses, … in life. Across the EU, it is no secret that the bulk of unpaid care work is done by women. Well, women’s care work … the pandemic, with online schooling emerging as a new unpaid job predominantly done by women. Men also increased …
… pandemic, with 7.7 million women unable to take up paid work because they were taking care of children and ageing parents. Although this unpaid care work doesn’t show up in governments’ balance … the state if not by their families. Globally, the value of unpaid care work has been estimated at around 9 trillion …
… how we can bring more gender equality into the domestic work sector. Let’s start with the obvious. The rights of … were women. Because the official data is clear: domestic work is predominantly done by women. The same is true of unpaid domestic labour, which still falls largely on the …
… include the gender pay gap, the unequal distribution of unpaidwork, and gender-based violence, to name just a few. Some new … that need tackling. One of them is the unequal share of unpaid housework and caring responsibilities. This, with our …
… labour market, women’s over-representation in precarious work and the continued difficult articulation between paid and unpaidwork, work-related stressors are likely to have … (Byron, 2005) . OECD statistics on time in paid and unpaidwork show that men spend more time in paid work [2] . …
… and those whose physical presence is still required at work (EIGE, 2021c). Most governments in the EU established … could be due both to social isolation and to the increased unpaid workload from school closures or movement restrictions … acute tensions from balancing the demands of paid and unpaidwork when support services and social networks have …
… has led to acute trade-offs in dividing time between paid work, care duties and leisure activities (EIGE, 2021c). With … of home schooling as a new and additional form of unpaidwork for parents (see Chapter 4) affected families … (Eurofound, 2021b). As a result, spending more time on unpaid care duties has caused acute work–life tensions for …
… most unequally shared of the three most common forms of unpaid care, the other two being childcare and long-term care … (Figure 15), demonstrating an enduring imbalance in unpaid care responsibilities within families [2] . Research … clear that adolescent girls and young women do more unpaidwork in the childhood home than their male counterparts – and …
… is largely determined by time pressures from both paid and unpaidwork (European Parliament, 2016a). In 2019, the … in the allocation of time to care and domestic work and social activities. The first subdomain, of care …
… 2020g). Women were already more likely than men to be in unpaid, low-paid or temporary jobs. The COVID-19 crisis is … scheme was not available in the sectors of their work or, if it was, provided lower benefits, or because they … (FRA, 2020c). Roma women are also more likely to perform unpaid care work, leading to an employment gap of 18 p.p. …
… to COVID-19, but they also experience high levels of work-related stress and emotional exhaustion (Barello et al., … the retail trade, hospitality, residential care, domestic work and clothes manufacturing (EIGE, 2021c). Most of these … but which have become more challenging because of ongoing unpaid care duties during COVID-19 restrictions (Klatzer and …
… women are considerably less likely than men to be in paid work, with the gender gap ranging from 19 p.p. in France to … women and men in couples with children, highlighting how unpaid care duties remain a major obstacle to women taking on … The COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated the situation. Despite unpaid care acting as a major buffer in managing the spread …
… track progress in this area, particularly on monitoring unpaidwork. EIGE will fill the gap in the near future by collecting EU-wide data on time spent on unpaid care and social activities by women and men. The …
… time is negative in the long term. An enormous increase in unpaid care during the COVID-19 crisis – particularly by … progress or even regression is probable. Domain of work With a score of 71.6 points – an increase of only … percentage points (p.p.), is between women and men taking unpaid care of children, followed by a 21 p.p. gap between …