… put in place pandemic recovery budgets and policies that work for both women and men. As our economies start to … as well as challenges. For instance, in childcare. Unpaid care work in the home really exploded for women during the …
… COVID-19: mental load, gender equality in teleworking and unpaid care work after the pandemic". Good morning all, Early last year, … women across the EU have been doing some 36 hours of unpaid care work each week during the pandemic, which is …
… the pandemic, women have been doing about 36 hours of unpaid care work a week. That’s almost 2,000 hours a year, which, to put … give to a full-time job over the course of a year. This unpaid care work that is essential to our economies. The …
… us today. It’s great to be here to speak about EIGE’s work programme in 2022. We have three priority topics for the … first is that we are now even more explicitly aligning our work programme with the political priorities of the European … survey, which asked women and men how much their paid and unpaid hours changed during the pandemic. This will provide …
… challenges to the spotlight. The importance of care work, whether paid or unpaid, and its unequal distribution between women and men is … Gender Equality Index is on digitalisation, the future of work and most importantly, the consequences for gender …
… important matter of care and who takes on this essential work, whether it’s paid or unpaid has also received a lot more attention in recent … are also heavily involved in other forms of essential care work, such as informal caring for people with a disability or …
… measures, paid employment declined, while the amount of unpaid household work and childcare increased significantly. Even though men … men. The survey collected data on the thematic areas of unpaid care, paid work, services, support and well-being. The …
… in retail, accommodation, residential care, domestic work and clothing manufacturing suffered heavy job losses. … more care responsibilities than before, women’s share of unpaidwork has increased. Online schooling represents a new form of unpaid care for parents, especially for women who are more …
… workloads, night shifts and low pay characterise their work. These factors will not attract more people to a sector … the EU. But we must also recognise the value of care work by increasing wages and improving working conditions. … care services mean that women often pick up the burden of unpaid care at home. This limits their career opportunities …