… mental load, gender equality in teleworking and unpaid care work after the pandemic". Good morning all, Early last … talking about the work of raising children, of taking care of ageing parents, and of cooking three meals a day. … across the EU have been doing some 36 hours of unpaid care work each week during the pandemic, which is almost …
… pandemic, women have been doing about 36 hours of unpaid care work a week. That’s almost 2,000 hours a year, which, to … to a full-time job over the course of a year. This unpaid care work that is essential to our economies. The children … of our pensions. No wonder then, that the value of unpaid care work has been estimated to be around 9 trillion euros …
… I believe we should be taking away from the data. That is: care is critical to our economies and to our lives. It seems obvious: we need carers to raise children, to take care of older people and those with disabilities, and those … the way we treat carers does not reflect the importance of care, the fact that each and every one of us will need to be …
… Women working in retail, accommodation, residential care, domestic work and clothing manufacturing suffered heavy … derail women’s employment gains is the unequal sharing of care, which can hold women back from entering the job market, … Across the EU, it is no secret that the bulk of unpaid care work is done by women. Well, women’s care work really …
… 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 … we should have just as many campaigns to get men into care work as we do to get women into ICT. Both should be seen …
… 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 … if not by their families. Globally, the value of unpaid care work has been estimated at around 9 trillion euros each …
… 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 …