… an ambitious EU headline target to achieve at least a 78% employment rate of the population aged 20-64 by 2030, and to … Think of when your child is sick. What typically happens? Mothers step in. Who typically plans, manages and organises a child’s activities? It mostly falls on mothers. The inequalities in care, which I just described, …
… November 2023 hosted by the European Federation for Family Employment and Home Care at the EGG Center in Brussels Good … years. All this evidence points to a persisting trend. Mothers are under heavier pressure to adjust their working … of highly time intensive informal care, especially for mothers and closing gender gaps in employment. In the last 4 …
… every day caring for children than men. Women and men in employment who experience difficulties in combining paid work … frequency of work-life conflicts. Around a third of single mothers and fathers and couples with children face …
… a year is more or less what you would spend on full time employment. This unpaid work creates a vicious cycle. It … and in the home, telework must not end up dominated by mothers trying to care for their children at the same time as …
… a right that is still much more likely to be taken up by mothers, than it is by fathers. According to one European … despite the fact that there are actually more fathers than mothers eligible for parental leave. That’s because there are more men than women in employment, which is often a prerequisite for parental leave. …
… for those working in so-called ‘non-standard’ forms of employment. This includes the growing rank of gig workers in … be careful not to allow telework to become dominated by mothers trying to care for children at the same time as doing …
… shows that following five years of growth at EU-level, employment declined for both women and men in all EU Member … less women than men in the labour market to begin with, employment declined for both groups by 2.4 %. Rising … is not a solution for childcare. Our study shows that mothers have to deal with interruptions by children more …
… shows, long-standing gender inequalities [such as lower employment rates of women, gender pay gap] in the economy … forms of unpaid work largely contribute to the fact that employment rates of men (78 %) have surpassed the Europe 2020 … women (especially older women with low pensions), lone mothers and female headed households. Can you imagine how it …
… professions During the first wave of the pandemic, employment for women reduced by 2.2 million across the EU. … the crisis were in these professions. Despite rising employment in the summer, women gained only half as many jobs … the virtual classroom with children. Our study shows that mothers have to deal with interruptions by children more …
… with small gender pay gaps, women aged 20-64 have lower employment rates than men. In Italy, where the gap is 5.0 %, … primary carers, which leads to lower employment rates for mothers than for fathers with young children in all Members States. The average employment rate for mothers aged 20-49 with a young child (younger than 6 years …
… the difficulty of reconciling the role of the carer with employment. This conflict represents a missed opportunity for … informal care. One third of women who curtail their employment in order to offer care report the reason to be the … partners. This leave is separate from maternity leave for mothers and from paternity leave for fathers where it exists. …
… woman and man. The Bank of Italy estimates that if female employment rose to 60 percent, gross domestic product would … considered nor taken parental leave. Almost all eligible mothers make use of their right to parental leave further … [18]. 42. In 2008, 35% of single parents (mostly single mothers) were exposed to a high poverty risk [18]. 43. Women …