… in the labour market, including women tending to work fewer hours and in more precarious employment, then … picture, the gender pay gap is aggravated. Due to unshared unpaid care responsibilities, the highest gender pay gap is … jobs; They work more hours, accounting combined paid and unpaidwork; They take longer career breaks often due to care …
… are never in isolation – life just doesn’t work like that. Childcare sits alongside other demands like housework or long-term unpaid care. It all adds up. And if it’s not shared equally, … grocery shopping, the cleaning, the laundry, an important work project, then taking care of home-schooling and then …
… structural barriers, and societal ideas about what women’s work should look like contributed to pushing 7.7 million … average, women across the EU have carried out 36 hours of unpaidwork a week. This is 2,000 hours a year. 2,000 hours a … or less what you would spend on full time employment. This unpaidwork creates a vicious cycle. It props up so many of …
… conditions related to dependants. Alongside the right of unpaid leave, the institute made provisions for paid … after the employee has exhausted their annual plus their unpaid leave. The dependant care leave can be granted for up … year. Any further leave needed beyond the annual leave, unpaid leave and the dependant care leave may also be granted …
… EU-wide survey data on women’s and men’s engagement in unpaid care, individual, and social activities, adopting … transition in transport and energy Policy brief “A Better Work–Life Balance: Bridging the gender care gap” EIGE’s …
… ensuring a broad protection from discrimination. The work-life balance directive [12] champions gender equality … men and the equal distribution between women and men of unpaid care work (including domestic work) and improve public … and female genital mutilation; recognise and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public …
… put in place pandemic recovery budgets and policies that work for both women and men. As our economies start to … as well as challenges. For instance, in childcare. Unpaid care work in the home really exploded for women during the …
… Gender Equality (EIGE) is proud to help EU Member States work towards. For the last two years, International Women’s … the EU treaties were signed in 1957 are the result of hard work, including laws, campaigns, and individual acts of … EU. And we have pointed out the implications of care and unpaidwork on women’s and men’s lives at Eurofound’s …
… with women being less likely to have a job, more likely to work part-time and in less senior position. The fact that … with the birth of each child, shows the impact of this unpaid care work on women’s lives. The best way to neutralise these …
… challenges to the spotlight. The importance of care work, whether paid or unpaid, and its unequal distribution between women and men is … Gender Equality Index is on digitalisation, the future of work and most importantly, the consequences for gender …