… AI. Here they can face challenges such as male-dominated work environments, stereotyping, sexual harassment, and a … throughout history, those kinds of systems don’t tend to work so well for women. Without representation, women miss … AI professionals. Here I’d like to highlight the good work being done by the people behind initiatives such as …
… 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 … childcare and housework. During the pandemic, this type of work really exploded. Everyone was doing more: men as well as …
… put in place pandemic recovery budgets and policies that work for both women and men. As our economies start to … as challenges. For instance, in childcare. Unpaid care work in the home really exploded for women during the … can protect gender equality by building “economies that work for people”, which is also the key topic of a campaign …
… Gender Equality (EIGE) is proud to help EU Member States work towards. For the last two years, International Women’s … the EU treaties were signed in 1957 are the result of hard work, including laws, campaigns, and individual acts of … we have pointed out the implications of care and unpaid work on women’s and men’s lives at Eurofound’s Foundation …
… with women being less likely to have a job, more likely to work part-time and in less senior position. The fact that … birth of each child, shows the impact of this unpaid care work on women’s lives. The best way to neutralise these … entirely made up of women. Even though they have the vital work of shaping our children’s early education, they are some …
… load, gender equality in teleworking and unpaid care work after the pandemic". Good morning all, Early last year, … Parliament called for the “right to disconnect” from work. This is a good thing: telework during the pandemic … between the home and the workplace. Neither is good for work-life balance or mental health. Yet there’s another kind …
… monitor gender equality progress. We are able to do this work thanks to the European Commission’s Instrument of … Gender Statistics for Creating Better Policies EIGE's work with EU candidate countries and potential candidates …
… women have been doing about 36 hours of unpaid care work a week. That’s almost 2,000 hours a year, which, to put … full-time job over the course of a year. This unpaid care work that is essential to our economies. The children being … pensions. No wonder then, that the value of unpaid care work has been estimated to be around 9 trillion euros each …
… (EIGE) shows that artificial intelligence and platform work (also called gig work), have the potential to improve gender equality in the … sexism and discrimination, while entrenching insecure work and a lack of social protection. EIGE’s Director Carlien …
… 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 … January, we are releasing a report looking at how platform work (such as ride hailing and food delivery), and artificial …
… persist in the EU. Women are less likely to be in paid work than men, with 67 % of working age women in employment, … number of women may find themselves unable to take up paid work. Currently, this employment loss costs the EU economy … extremely low as caring is still considered women’s work. Before the crisis, flexible working arrangements such …
… in the European Union and shows trends in the domains of work, money, knowledge, time, power, health and violence. … still faced the most challenges when trying to juggle work and family life. This brings me to the focus of this … can help both women and men combine private life with paid work. However, I would like to stress that telework …
… challenges to the spotlight. The importance of care work, whether paid or unpaid, and its unequal distribution … Gender Equality Index is on digitalisation, the future of work and most importantly, the consequences for gender …
… see gender balance for another 125 years. Quotas clearly work. But for some reason, they still make people uneasy. … progression. And even when women are able to return to work after having children, even when they have managed to … some 7.7 million women in the EU are kept out of paid work because they are providing care. To put that into …
… All this can lead to victims underperforming at work, university or school, and subsequently losing their job … policies and laws to properly tackle cyber violence. This work is urgent. The current body of evidence on cyber …
… important matter of care and who takes on this essential work, whether it’s paid or unpaid has also received a lot … are also heavily involved in other forms of essential care work, such as informal caring for people with a disability or … pay and weaker social protection. Levels of precarious work are particularly high among young women, women with low …
… Carlien Scheele delivered this speech at the “Remote Work: Challenges, Risks and Opportunities" conference on the future of work, organised by the 2021 Portuguese Presidency of the … opened up the panel on “Connecting and disconnecting and work-life balance”. The European Parliament has called for …