… be cared for at some point in our lives. Professional care work is one of the lowest paid occupations in the EU, often accompanied by poor … and of the pandemic, care workers are some of the lowest paid people in the EU. Their low salaries are a reflection of …
… 1957, we’ve been signed up to the principle that equal work of equal value should be paid the same, regardless of who’s doing it. And yet, women are still paid on average 14 % less per hour than men. At the European …
… the pandemic, with 7.7 million women unable to take up paidwork because they were taking care of children and ageing … This can, of course, make it difficult to find time for paidwork -- as was the case for 7.7 million women before the …
… how we can bring more gender equality into the domestic work sector. Let’s start with the obvious. The rights of … will have been the only way you’ve been able to take up paidwork. Because otherwise you would have been doing it … apart. Yet domestic work includes some of the most under-paid and under-valued jobs in the labour market. For example, …
… ways. How common was burn out among parents combining paidwork, online home-schooling and household chores? What about … and men and levels of achievement in six core domains: work, money, knowledge, time, power and health, and their …
… There is a direct link between the unequal division of unpaid care in households and gender inequality in the labour … 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. …
… women continue to be under-represented in senior roles, paid less than men and disproportionately subject to sexual … underpins the unequal way women and men are treated at work. While overt sexism is prohibited under EU law, many … value of gender equality. Further reading Sexism at work: How can we stop it? Handbook for the EU institutions …
… girls and boys, there is also a division in the type of work they choose. More boys end up in engineering and IT … the type of jobs they go into are usually valued less and paid less, e.g. child-care workers. EIGE’s study on gender … in the job market. Special focus will be on people who work less than 10 hours a week, earn a low salary or have a …
… or sick and disabled relatives keeps many women out of paidwork and this has life-long consequences for their career, … of the EU (2016). This report is part of EIGE's regular work to monitor progress in the implementation of the Beijing …
… by EIGE suggests that, despite improvements in policy, the work-life balance for men and women remains unequal in … example, where paternity leave is transferable, or poorly paid, the take-up is low. Employers may favour male recruits … when the mother returns to work. Paternity leave is a paid or unpaid leave of absence from work granted to a father …
… in the area F: Women and the Economy Reconciliation of Work and Family Life as a Condition of Equal Participation in … for children and dependent elderly and distribution of paid and unpaid work between women and men. …