… Sweden and Belgium more men than women perceive facing work-life tensions nearly every day. If we look at cooking … hand in hand with lower employment opportunities, reduced work hours and lower income. And this cost is much higher for … women than men. For some women, choices and expectations work against each other. I know this because I recently spoke …
… There will always be an excuse deprioritising the work on gender equality. We can’t let that happen. We have to … picks up. Taking a closer look at change About Time - unpaid care is still uneven between women and men The gender … But not because men are shouldering more of the care work. Women are doing less. Assisting technologies, home …
… Unpaid care is often taken for granted. It's simply done … on care, leisure and volunteering activities reveals unpaid care is in a pressure cooker situation right now which … employment who experience difficulties in combining paid work with care responsibilities at least 4 days a week (%, …
… has led to a proliferation of so-called "platform work" whereby workers use online platforms (e.g. Uber, Wolt, … (17 hours for women and 11 for men). Women’s higher unpaid care responsibilities impact the scheduling of their … work on digital platforms and have to factor in their unpaidwork more than men. Read more Online Panel Survey of …
… has led to a proliferation of so-called "platform work" whereby workers use online platforms (e.g. Uber, Wolt, … This note explores some of the characteristics of platform work for those with childcare responsibilities. Furthermore, … how women living with children cite balancing paid- and unpaidwork as a motivation more often compared to men …
… The platform work economy comes with great strengths. The ability to work where you want and how you want is a significant … and ‘Women platform workers face challenges balancing unpaid care with work, despite so-called flexibility’ . …
… Index domains. A decrease in the score of participation in work indicates that women are increasingly likely to spend … focused on critical aspects related to the time spent on unpaid care. However, the increase was not evenly distributed …
… 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 …
… 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 …
… most gender equal places in the world is a result of hard work. It is the result of laws, of campaigns, of individual … and of so much more. We therefore need to continue our work, as the progress we’ve made can be easily lost. I’d … women across the EU have been doing some 36 hours of unpaid care work each week during the pandemic, which is …
… 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 …
… 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 …
… COVID-19: mental load, gender equality in teleworking and unpaid care work after the pandemic". Good morning all, Early last year, … women across the EU have been doing some 36 hours of unpaid care work each week during the pandemic, which is …
… the pandemic, women have been doing about 36 hours of unpaid care work a week. That’s almost 2,000 hours a year, which, to put … give to a full-time job over the course of a year. This unpaid care work that is essential to our economies. The …
… us today. It’s great to be here to speak about EIGE’s work programme in 2022. We have three priority topics for the … first is that we are now even more explicitly aligning our work programme with the political priorities of the European … survey, which asked women and men how much their paid and unpaid hours changed during the pandemic. This will provide …
… important matter of care and who takes on this essential work, whether it’s paid or unpaid has also received a lot more attention in recent … are also heavily involved in other forms of essential care work, such as informal caring for people with a disability or …
… 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 …