… 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 …
… 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 …
… 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 …