… in its fastest-growing sector? Ahead of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11 February, let’s take … in working in the green sector. Where women account for 22 % of workers in the conventional energy sector in the … EIGE’s Gender Equality Index also explores how jobs in care, health and education should also be the focus of a just …
… Marking 10 years of commitment and advocacy for domestic and home care in the EU, EIGE’s Director, Carlien Scheele gave an … than women perceive facing work-life tensions nearly every day. If we look at cooking and/or housework every day and …
… Unpaid care is often taken for granted. It's simply done without question as a labour of … twice as many women spend at least 5 hours every day caring forchildren than men. Women and men in employment …
… equality through enabling a better work-life balance. For example, allowing people with childcare responsibilities, … because it is often performed outside the regular working day , though more often by men than by women. As many as 36 % … who perform high levels of household work, childcare or carefor disabled, elderly or infirm persons. Just over half …
… in 2010. Given that the Gender Equality Index 2022 focuses for the first time mainly on data from the first pandemic … background were at an even higher risk. An uptick in care responsibilities An uptick in overall care … this backdrop, EIGE is organising for the first time a two-day Gender Equality Forum in Brussels and online. The aim is …
… High-level Conference on Work-Life balance as a leverage for women’s empowerment and promoting gender equality, … the private space – they completed domestic tasks provided careforchildren and elderly, and were generally excluded from …
… It is good to be here today to mark International Women’s Day with you, and to share with you our latest data on the … made can be easily lost. I’d therefore like to thank you for joining today, to take a look at what’s happened since … across the EU have been doing some 36 hours of unpaid care work each week during the pandemic, which is almost …
… 2022. The topic of the meeting was "An ambitious future for Europe's women after COVID-19: mental load, gender equality in teleworking and unpaid care work after the pandemic". Good morning all, Early last … care of ageing parents, and of cooking three meals a day. It is no secret that in every singly country in the …
… of what I want to speak about today. Our economies have for centuries been moulded according to a male model. While … pandemic, women have been doing about 36 hours of unpaid care work a week. That’s almost 2,000 hours a year, which, to … intelligence is increasingly becoming part of our day-to-day lives. Already, 10 % of the EU population has done …
… EU countries aren’t keen and have been blocking the law for almost a decade now. It looks odd, this world, doesn’t … significantly more likely to take career breaks to take care of children. This can eat into the time they are able to … but I have one. And should she herself become a mother one day, I would not want her to be judged on those terms. How to …
… and work-life balance”. The European Parliament has called for the “right to disconnect” from work. This is a good … talking about the work of raising children, of taking care of ageing parents, of cooking three meals a day. This work is not paid and you won’t find it in …
… event was organised in cooperation with the Directorate for Relations with National Parliaments. The speech opened up … I believe we should be taking away from the data. That is: care is critical to our economies and to our lives. It seems … the EU, a spectacular 79 % of women do housework every day, compared to 34 % of men. Well, during the pandemic, …
… this speech at an event titled Gender Equality As a Driver for Recovery, organised by the Portuguese Presidency of the … European Union on 5 March 2021. With International Women’s Day just around the corner, and the EU set to roll out its … Women working in retail, accommodation, residential care, domestic work and clothing manufacturing suffered heavy …
… In the lead up to International Women’s Day on 8 March, the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) has released new findings on the … EU. Women working in retail, accommodation, residential care, domestic work and clothing manufacturing suffered heavy …