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  • International Symposium: "Work, Wellbeing and Wealth: Active Ageing at Work"

    … occupational healthcare for employees with disabilities; age-heterogeneous and cross-generational teams; new … and flexible working time arrangements; good practices in age management and the management of generations; solutions …

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    - Europe/Helsinki

  • Gender, age and education affect workers’ access to social activities

    … engaging in social activities by sex, family composition, age, education level, country of birth and disability, EU, … workers, involvement in social activities declines with age and increases with education, pointing to the ways in … focuses on workers and is thus limited to certain age groups, including 15–24 and 50–64. Nor does it reflect …

  • Single women, particularly in old age, are at highest risk of poverty

    … dropping by 1.6 points (Figure 8). Family composition, age, educational attainment, migration status and … this area result in a higher risk of poverty among pension-age women. Single women face the greatest financial hardship in old age as they cannot rely on survivor pensions or the income of …

  • Education

    … on average, 5 times more likely than women of the same age to have studied engineering, manufacturing and … States. Moreover, when it comes to educational poverty at age 15, boys are over-represented: the share of boys across … share of their budget on staff training. However, in an age of austerity and despite the continuing existence of …

  • Digital agenda

    … access the Internet, compared to 48 % of women in the same age group. In the EU-28, Internet use is widespread among both women and men in the 16–74 years age group. However, women tend to use computers and the … software content, compared to 33 % of men in the same age group (2013 data); 35 % of women aged 16–74 use the …

  • Health

    … are more male deaths than female deaths in the working-age population (15 – 64 years). However, while living longer, … expectancy, or the remaining years a person of a specific age is expected to live without any moderate or severe health … as well as diseases and disabilities related to old age. Sexual abuse and domestic violence particularly affect …

  • Economic and financial affairs

    … as 34% in Egypt. With the prospect of a shrinking working-age population, increasing the labour force participation and … Specifically, in recent years reforms have linked old-age pensions to longer periods of gainful employment. As … hamper women’s access to economic resources in old age. Gender-blind policies, such as the current shift towards …

  • Adult learning stalls most when reskilling needs are greatest

    … differences in formal and non-formal learning related to age. Figure 20 illustrates that as people age, their participation in education and training drops. … in formal education. However, among the 25-49 year age cohort figures for adult participation in formal or …

  • Digital skills and training

    … both indices. Gender divide in digital skills widens with age Given the likely future of jobs, it is important to … and Romania have the lowest shares. However, at a later age, the gender divide widens, with most older people having … and older people still remain the least digitally skilled age group, with a gender gap of around – 7 p.p. in 2019 …

  • Women are more likely to have health limitations over their lifetime

    … 65 and 74 years. As health limitations increase with age and affect women and men differently, any analysis of ill health must consider age, gender and the severity of limitations. Women suffer greater health limitations than men in all age groups (Figure 26). This is attributed to women being …

  • Women continue to gradually outpace men in educational attainment

    … than men had graduated from university in the 15 or older age group (26 % and 25 %, respectively). The largest gender … differs substantially between women and men in terms of age, family composition and disability (Figure 13). More … tertiary education, but the reverse is evident in the 50 + age group. Furthermore, more women than men have gained …

  • Hard-to-reach groups would benefit most from adult learning

    … only 17 % of women and 16 % of men older than 15 years of age were in formal or informal education or training in the … in formal or non-formal training, by family composition, age, education level and country of birth (%, 15+ years, EU, …

  • Women bear the brunt of the impact of COVID-19 on jobs

    … in 2019; the corresponding figure for men of the same age was 9 %. Figures vary substantially across groups of … was slow, at 0.3 %, while for men of comparable age the figure was more than double that, at 0.7 %. The … [2] . In contrast, employment rates for men of the same age group and born outside the EU-27 increased throughout the …

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