… 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 …
… personal. So, let’s bring it home. We need to talk about unpaid care. Differently. Because the reality is just not … out - for anyone. And it hasn’t for a while. What does unpaid care mean? It’s looking after children – from getting … the clock assistance. And unpaid care also means household work. In the fragile context of the pandemic, all these forms …
… 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 …
… 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 …
… challenges to the spotlight. The importance of care work, whether paid or unpaid, and its unequal distribution between women and men is … Gender Equality Index is on digitalisation, the future of work and most importantly, the consequences for gender …
… 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 …
… 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 …
… measures, paid employment declined, while the amount of unpaid household work and childcare increased significantly. Even though men … men. The survey collected data on the thematic areas of unpaid care, paid work, services, support and well-being. The …
… in retail, accommodation, residential care, domestic work and clothing manufacturing suffered heavy job losses. … more care responsibilities than before, women’s share of unpaidwork has increased. Online schooling represents a new form of unpaid care for parents, especially for women who are more …
… workloads, night shifts and low pay characterise their work. These factors will not attract more people to a sector … the EU. But we must also recognise the value of care work by increasing wages and improving working conditions. … care services mean that women often pick up the burden of unpaid care at home. This limits their career opportunities …