… can become victims of their intimate partner, but also of men outside a partnership. A study by Dobash and Dobash … shows that most murders of older women are committed by men from the neighbourhood. Perpetrators are often unemployed … of physical violence and harassment among women and men. Owing to differences in survey aims and methodology, …
… explores the specific ways in which women and men are affected by COVID-19 in terms of infection and health … data shows that life expectancy fell slightly more for men than for women, except in Spain. The largest decreases were for men in Poland and Lithuania (– 1.5 years) and in Romania …
… gender norms and relations affect health behaviours. Men are more likely to smoke and drink excessively, while … achieved in the EU. About 3.3 % of women and 2.8 % of men report unmet needs for medical examinations. Across … to report unmet medical examination needs: women and men with disabilities (women, 6.6 %; men, 6 %), lone parents …
… women account for 33 % of board members. Elsewhere, men still heavily outnumber women. In 10 Member States, women … (25 %). Source: EIGE Gender Statistics Database, Women and Men in Decision-Making (WMID). Various Member States have …
… political power looks at the representation of women and men in national parliaments, government and regional/local … of economic power examines the proportions of women and men on the corporate boards of the largest nationally …
… duties has caused acute work–life tensions for women and men (Craig and Churchill, 2020; EIGE, 2020b, 2020g, 2021c; … the pandemic has led to a modest increase in time spent by men on unpaid care, particularly fathers who lost jobs and men in couples with women in essential work (EIGE, 2021c), …
… least an hour per day on housework, compared with 30 % of men with children. The latest available data shows that … spend about 2.3 hours daily on housework; for employed men, this figure is 1.6 hours. Gender gaps in housework … among those aged 18–24 years (20 p.p.), only 19 % of young men spend an hour on cooking and housework a day, compared …
… of care activities, measures gender gaps in women’s and men’s involvement in the care and/or education of their … The second subdomain explores how many women and men engage in social activities. Concretely, it measures gender gaps in women’s and men’s participation in sport, cultural or leisure activities …
… In a highly digitalised world, women and men need a wide range of knowledge, skills and opportunities, … throughout life. Without the right skills, both women and men are likely to end up in poor-quality jobs, to be … Commission, 2015b). Yet only 17 % of women and 16 % of men older than 15 years of age were in formal or informal …
… measured by two indicators: the percentages of women and men who are graduates of tertiary-level education and the participation of women and men in formal and non-formal education and training over … education by looking at the percentages of women and men students in the education, health and welfare, humanities …
… exclusion risks were already higher for women than for men in the EU before the pandemic (EIGE, 2020g). Women were already more likely than men to be in unpaid, low-paid or temporary jobs. The COVID-19 … hit by lockdowns means that they are more likely than men to lose their job or have their working hours reduced …
… influence income disparities between women and men. While income gaps are less visible for couples with or … but highest income gap is between single women and single men, with women earning 2.706 PPS less than men (Figure 9). Over a lifetime, income inequalities widen, …
… The subdomain of financial resources includes women’s and men’s mean monthly earnings from work and mean equivalised … The subdomain of economic situation captures women’s and men’s risk of poverty and the income distribution among women and men. …
… during the year. Although large numbers of both women and men lost their job, EIGE research (2021c) shows that it was … the same quarter in 2019; the corresponding figure for men of the same age was 9 %. Figures vary substantially across groups of women and men, with over 2 % of women and men aged 15–64 years losing …
… with children, with 62 % of women, compared with 89 % of men, in this family grouping working full time. The second … gender gap, of 21 p.p., is among foreign-born women and men. This is followed by people with low educational … working full time in 2019 – only 17 % of women and 36 % of men. FTE employment rates in 2019 for all groups of women …