… Carlien Scheele delivered this speech at the “Remote Work: Challenges, Risks and Opportunities" conference on the … parents, of cooking three meals a day. This work is not paid and you won’t find it in countries’ balance sheets, but … work also eats into the time you’re trying to reserve for paidwork. Our latest findings show that during Covid, …
… 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, …
… the gender pay gap, the unequal distribution of unpaid work, and gender-based violence, to name just a few. Some new … women are particularly vulnerable. Women are also paid less because they dominate sectors that are low-paid versions of their domestic caring responsibilities, for …
… COVID-19 pandemic showed that: Due to lockdown measures, paid employment declined, while the amount of unpaid household work and childcare increased significantly. Even though men … during the summer of 2020, women did not return to paid employment to the same extent that men did. This could …
… 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 …
… inequalities in the labour market. The bulk of unpaid care work is done by women, and this hinders their access to employment. The paid care sector has a large share of women employees who are … usually make it more convenient for women to opt out of paid employment and care for their families, compared to men. …
… What is work–life balance and why does it matter? Work–life balance is about striking a balance between ‘work’ and ‘life’. Here, ‘work’ means paidwork and ‘life’ means everything else – including, but …