… 10 years of commitment and advocacy for domestic and home care in the EU, EIGE’s Director, Carlien Scheele gave an address at the Domestic and Home Care EU Congress on 14 November 2023 hosted by the European Federation for Family Employment and Home Care at the EGG Center in Brussels Good morning to the …
… EU policy framework: employment, income, education, unpaid care, decision-making, health. The analysis is complemented … first time, the Index incorporates EIGE’s survey data on care. This data sheds new light on the domain of time, which … looks at gender inequalities in the allocation of time to care, domestic work, leisure and social activities. This …
… background were at an even higher risk. An uptick in care responsibilities An uptick in overall care responsibilities during the pandemic was revealed … on critical aspects related to the time spent on unpaid care. However, the increase was not evenly distributed …
… a reality for everyone in every area. Gender norms around care, gender segregation in education and the labour market, … are most needed. The 2022 Index has a thematic focus on care in the pandemic. It explores the division of informal childcare, long-term care and housework between women and men. …
… women also assume most of the domestic work and 70% of all care tasks. We're a long way from an equal sharing of … and opportunities between women and men when it comes to care and domestic work. Spain’s Instituto de las Mujeres … crisis, women are threatened. The astonishing overload of care work and destruction of employment has particularly …
… across the EU have been doing some 36 hours of unpaid care work each week during the pandemic, which is almost … allow telework to become dominated by mothers trying to care for children at the same time as doing their job, while … we need is in the home. To give men the opportunity to care for their children right from day 1, governments should …
… pandemic, women have been doing about 36 hours of unpaid care work a week. That’s almost 2,000 hours a year, which, to … to a full-time job over the course of a year. This unpaid care work that is essential to our economies. The children … of our pensions. No wonder then, that the value of unpaid care work has been estimated to be around 9 trillion euros …
… significantly more likely to take career breaks to take care of children. This can eat into the time they are able to … EU are kept out of paid work because they are providing care. To put that into perspective, that is about equal to … well as a healthy work-life balance, men should be taking care of children just as much as women are. Governments may …
… Women working in retail, accommodation, residential care, domestic work and clothing manufacturing suffered heavy … derail women’s employment gains is the unequal sharing of care, which can hold women back from entering the job market, … Across the EU, it is no secret that the bulk of unpaid care work is done by women. Well, women’s care work really …
… The survey collected data on the thematic areas of unpaid care, paid work, services, support and well-being. The data … in paid and unpaid work driven by workplace, school and care facility closures due to lockdown measures? What changes … How did the amount of household work, including care, change due to the COVID-19 crisis and did this lead to …
… is a direct link between the unequal division of unpaid care in households and gender inequality in the labour … Gender Equality (EIGE). Across the EU, the bulk of unpaid care work is done by women, with 92 % providing unpaid care several days a week – as opposed to 68 % of men. …