… Marking 10 years of commitment and advocacy for domestic and home care in the EU, EIGE’s Director, … Sweden and Belgium more men than women perceive facing work-life tensions nearly every day. If we look at cooking … Moving over to long-term care, we see that female carers pay much higher economic price than male carers. Women are …
… note explores some of the characteristics of platform workfor those with childcare responsibilities. Furthermore, it … responsibilities, it is also usually associated with low pay and unpredictable income . In fact, EIGE’s platform … drawback (Figure 3). These proportions were lower and more equal amongst men and women living with their partner and no …
… only about 10 % of fathers in the EU use their right for parental leave. Take up varies greatly across the EU, … with women being less likely to have a job, more likely to work part-time and in less senior position. The fact that … to work in sectors dominated by women, as long as the pay and prestige are sufficient. Bringing more men into …
… Carlien Scheele delivered this speech at the “Remote Work: Challenges, Risks and Opportunities" conference on the … and work-life balance”. The European Parliament has called for the “right to disconnect” from work. This is a good … But it’s also true in so called ‘normal times’. The gender pay gap, women’s lower pensions…it’s all linked to the fact …
… event was organised in cooperation with the Directorate for Relations with National Parliaments. The speech opened up … be cared for at some point in our lives. Professional care work is one of the lowest paid occupations in the EU, often … work, and is therefore either done for free or on low pay. While we want to get more women doing men’s work, it …
… how we can bring more gender equality into the domestic work sector. Let’s start with the obvious. The rights of … have hired someone to help us at home. To clean our house, for example, or to take care of our ageing parents. And I am … much at all. So it is perhaps little wonder that we don’t pay domestic workers decent salaries or even give them much …