… EU. Women working in retail, accommodation, residential care, domestic work and clothing manufacturing suffered heavy … young children aged 0-5 years. Despite men taking on more care responsibilities than before, women’s share of unpaid … Online schooling represents a new form of unpaid care for parents, especially for women who are more involved …
… pay gap and women’s disproportionate burden of unpaid care. This report focuses on BPfA Area F, ‘Women and the … inequalities in pay are linked to gender inequalities in care in Europe. The analysis aims to contribute to important … policy discussions on the gender pay gap and gender care gap. Further reading Factsheet: Gender inequalities in …
… is a direct link between the unequal division of unpaid care in households and gender inequality in the labour … Gender 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. …
… is a direct link between the unequal division of unpaid care in households and gender 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 …
… professional fields . While women are over-represented in care and pre-primary education, men dominate politics and … informal expectations around who is responsible for unpaid care work . Although around 77 % of men aged 20–49 are … only about 10 % of men take advantage of this right [20] . Care responsibilities keep 7.7 million women in the EU out of …
… In coming years, the number of people needing long-term care will increase, given the ageing population and … 2018). In order to contain costs and allow the long-term care system to sustain the pressure of growing patient … numbers, countries are promoting independent living in any care setting (residential, home or community-based). Policy …
… in platform work, with the imbalanced division of care between women and men restricting women’s choices more … structural bias in the gender division of unpaid work and care responsibilities, restricting women’s choices in the … those who are working fewer hours, particularly women with care responsibilities, and those with poor health. A study of …
… of time (which measures gender equality in engagement in care and social activities) and the availability of some … reduction in working hours, for the purposes of providing care.’ In other words, the directive calls for flexibility … by blurred boundaries between leisure time and unpaid care, with phenomena such as contamination (leisure time …
… the only option for people to combine substantial unpaid care responsibilities (primarily taken on by women) with paid … work–life balance and opportunities to combine care and work responsibilities, while men are more likely to … to arrange an hour or two off during working hours to take care of personal or family matters. There is also significant …