… Europe is an ageing continent and women are often taking care of their parents, as well as children. Our data shows … where women are concentrated in poorly paid fields like care work, while men dominate highly paid fields like ICT, is … at work. Countries should earmark healthy amounts of parental leave for fathers to help make this a reality. Last, …
… women unable to take up paid work because they were taking care of children and ageing parents. Although this unpaid care work doesn’t show up in governments’ balance sheets, it … change stays, countries should earmark healthy amounts of parental leave for all fathers. Second, people must have …
… are women. When it comes to those who provide professional care at home, 83 % are women. And that’s just the figures … us at home. To clean our house, for example, or to take care of our ageing parents. And I am sure that more often … as they would no longer be able to provide free-of charge care for their older relatives in the home. Instead, the …
… of women being kept out of the labour market due to care responsibilities. Currently, 37.5 % of women in the EU care for children, the elderly, or people with disabilities … For example, even though many Member States have expanded parental leave, take-up by men remains very low, as …
… violence or based on the complicity of the authorities or care providers Death of women by police persecution and … marginalisation and risk (included authority, control and care relationship) Femicide 65+ EIGE presents a proposal of … of the family Friends or acquaintances of the victim Care relationship (carer, doctor, nurse, etc.) …
… men, as priority was given to healthcare and residential care workers – both groups mostly composed of women. At the … within 30 days of COVID-19 diagnosis and of intensive care unit admission were also higher among men (Kragholm et … to be hospitalised and to be admitted to an intensive care unit, accounting for 53 % of hospitalised patients and …
… in the EU (ECDC, 2021). Abortion, pregnancy and maternal care disparities across the European Union Estimates suggest … et al., 2020). This shows that abortion services and care are essential components of public health, to ensure … countries not requiring third-party consent, for example parental consent, for abortion in underaged children, are …
… dedicate more of their time to childcare and long-term care. Read more Globally, people with disabilities have … Disabilities. Beyond medical services, access to long-term care services is critical to autonomous living and the … (2020f), barriers to accessing professional home-based care ae affect women disproportionately, as they are …
… (WHO, 2016a, WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2017), with parental income key to determining children’s access to … observations – the gender gap in fruit consumption and parental influence on adolescents’ healthy eating behaviour – … of masculinity limit boys and men in their self-care and create barriers to healthy living and well-being. …
… to acute trade-offs in dividing time between paid work, care duties and leisure activities (EIGE, 2021c). With restrictions largely preventing external care services or help from grandparents, friends and neighbours, care has been provided mainly from within the family. The …
… unequally shared of the three most common forms of unpaid care, the other two being childcare and long-term care for … within families [2] . Research shows that the parental role model is the primary mechanism for entrenching … young people in the EU-27, the average age at leaving the parental home was 27.1 years for men and 25.2 years for …
… such as laptops, reliable broadband connection and parental support – all important factors in learning … School and childcare service closures have increased the care burden and created new forms of unpaid care for working parents, including home schooling. Across …
… are of importance, for example, to access unemployment or parental leave benefits. The type of income support women … job market, as well as their disproportionate burden of care duties. Gender-sensitive recovery needs to address the gender pay gap by promoting equal share of care responsibilities and by better valorising those working …
… migrant women are usually limited to working in low-paid care jobs (Addati, 2018; EIGE, 2020c, 2021d). FRA (2019) … and men in couples with children, highlighting how unpaid care duties remain a major obstacle to women taking on paid … crisis has exacerbated the situation. Despite unpaid care acting as a major buffer in managing the spread of …
… would find it difficult to pay for unexpected dental care (41 % of women and 35 % of men), mental health services … 2018). Access to safe abortion and high-quality maternal care remains unequal across the EU, especially for vulnerable … Eurostat data shows that women represent 88 % of personal care workers, 84 % of cleaners and helpers, 73 % of education …
… life. This includes their health. The burden of unpaid care is increasingly regarded as a determinant of health. … services or to increase fathers’ access and take-up of parental leave entitlements – link to lower levels of gender … 2021d). The directive includes new labour rights, such as parental and carers’ leave, and aims to ease inherent …