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  • Work stressors

    … or musculoskeletal conditions [1] . With entrenched gender segregation in the labour market, women’s over-representation …

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  • The COVID-19 pandemic aggravates and brings forth health inequalities

    … poor working conditions, including a lack of appropriate occupational health and safety measures and precarious … psychosocial risks among working-age women being linked to occupational risks (Tomáš Sobotka et al., 2020). Migrant … in low-level positions, such as nurses, and occupational segregation is a key reason why women nurses leave the …

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  • Progress is an uphill struggle

    … in total since 2010, reflecting the fact that gender segregation in some fields of study in tertiary education is …

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  • Domain of work

    … levels of underemployment for women, as well as in gender segregation in the job market and related pay challenges (see … and psychosocial hazards, including the risk of injury or occupational disease and stress, to name just a few. This …

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  • Sexism at work

    … engineering and mathematics [1] . Such horizontal gender segregation is partly responsible for the gender pay gap , as …

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  • What is the impact of sexism at work?

    … have been shown to be as detrimental to employees’ occupational well-being as sexual harassment [3][4] . Less … European Union Footnotes [1] Torre, M., ‘The flip side of segregation: men in typically female jobs’, London School of … Genat, A. E., ‘Harmful workplace experiences and women’s occupational well-being: a meta-analysis’, Psychology of …

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  • Digitalisation and equal rights – the role of AI algorithms

    … from the data, thus reinforcing gender bias and segregation (Dastin, 2018). The potential for AI to correct …

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  • Gender pay gap in ICT and platform work

    … The pay gap stems from a combination of factors, including occupational and sectoral segregation, part-time or temporary work, gender stereotypes … and technicians was 11 %. This is among the lowest occupational gender pay gaps across all sectors in the EU …

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  • New forms of work and flexible working practices in the context of the ICT sector and platform work

    … in the EU. Many different factors contribute to gender segregation in the ICT sector (see subsection 9.1.3), …

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  • Job automation, use of new technologies and transformation of the labour market

    … by country. This transformation is likely to change the occupational and sectoral structure of EU employment and is … well-established patterns of vertical and horizontal segregation. It is likely to have profound implications for … in work content; in the EU, women across different occupational categories are somewhat more likely to undertake …

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  • Men dominate technology development

    … across study fields, a phenomenon referred to as gender segregation. In 2018, only 17 % of female students had opted … 32 % of female students) [2] . Stark levels of gender segregation among STEM students and graduates lay the ground for future gender segregation in labour markets and subsequent gender disparity …

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  • Unprecedented impact of COVID-19 calls for gender-sensitive policies and research

    … 2020e). Women may be at risk of exposure as a result of occupational gender segregation: globally, women make up 70  % of the health …

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  • Increases in women’s employment have not challenged gender segregation

    … in the labour market. The Index score for work quality and segregation has scarcely changed since 2010, standing at … this period: Denmark, Romania and Cyprus. The gender segregation of some occupations came into particular focus … of FTE employment and the duration of working life. Gender segregation and quality of work are included in the second …

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  • Gender equality will be reached in over 60 years, at the current pace

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  • References

    … Eurofound. (2017a). Occupational change and wage inequality: European Jobs … Oesch, D., and Piccitto, G. (2019). The Polarization Myth: Occupational Upgrading in Germany, Spain, Sweden, and the UK, … 91-106. Rubery, J., and Fagan, C. (1993). Occupational segregation of women and men in the European Community : …

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  • 10. Conclusions

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  • Introduction

    … highlights some well-known challenges – such as the gender segregation of ICT education, employment and research – it …

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  • Migration

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  • Steps to integrate a gender perspective in monitoring and evaluation processes

    … diversity in SME leadership and in other industrial and occupational sectors? How have common gender equality … skills are an example of investments addressing gendered occupational segregation; they mean investing in occupations wherein women …

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  • Gender equality prospects in labour markets transformed by artificial intelligence and platform work

    … to women’s economic rights and independence, F5 addressing occupational segregation and F6 relating to work-life balance. The tender …

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