… that have traditionally been occupied by women like unpaid care or professional care jobs. Today, the labour market is as gender-segregated … pool. So what are the barriers? One key word here is: CARE . Our agency’s 2022 EU-wide survey on unpaid care , and …
… that hold women back from sport. And that is unpaid care responsibilities. Again, based on the engrained … of the caregiver, the time they have left over after their care responsibilities, for leisure activities including … Evidence from our 2022 survey on gender gaps in unpaid care , individual and social activities revealed that nearly …
… prevention and treatment, obstetric and gynecological care, psychological counselling, and safe abortion and post-abortion care. These services are considered a bare medical minimum … health providers or delays in receiving necessary care. In the most extreme cases, women and girls fleeing the …
… EIGE’s Gender Equality Index also explores how jobs in care, health and education should also be the focus of a just … be achieved without ‘greening’ health, education and care sectors. Esther launched the Circular Jobs Initiative …
… 10 years of commitment and advocacy for domestic and home care in the EU, EIGE’s Director, Carlien Scheele gave an address at the Domestic and Home Care EU Congress on 14 November 2023 hosted by the European Federation for Family Employment and Home Care at the EGG Center in Brussels Good morning to the …
… Unpaid care is often taken for granted. It's simply done without … labour of love. But EIGE’s new time use survey focused on care, leisure and volunteering activities reveals unpaid care is in a pressure cooker situation right now which …
… who perform high levels of household work, childcare or care for disabled, elderly or infirm persons. Just over half … (17 hours for women and 11 for men). Women’s higher unpaid care responsibilities impact the scheduling of their work on … 34% of men (see Figure 2). A similar gap applies regarding care for and education of children (32% and 20% …
… by the ability to combine platform work with house- and/or care work (20%). In contrast, more women lone parents (31%) … work : 64% men and 50% of women platform workers with this care responsibility are employed full-time in addition to …
… than men dominate in the fields of childcare and elderly care services. The findings suggest that motivations to join … on platform work, and promote an equal sharing of care responsibilities between women and men. Member States … ‘Women platform workers face challenges balancing unpaid care with work, despite so-called flexibility’ . …