… social determinant of health, shaping and reproducing how women and men engage in health behaviour. Research often frames women as as engaging in health-promoting behaviour, whereas … regardless of gender , despite WHO recommendations. Women are less physically active but eat more healthily …
… restrictions on movement to contain COVID-19 have trapped women and girls at home with their abusers. If victims of … different intersecting forms of discrimination against women and heighten the risk of violence against women … providers to ensure work–life balance for their own employees, and their health and safety. The EIGE study …
… and other chronic conditions [1] . About 91 % of women with children spend at least an hour per day on … children. The latest available data shows that employed women spend about 2.3 hours daily on housework; for employed … cooking and housework a day, compared with 39 % of young women (Figure 15). As most young people of this age live with …
… Poverty or social 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, … or temporary jobs. The COVID-19 crisis is likely to worsen women’s economic situation, as their over-representation in …
… and (dis)ability influence income disparities between women and men. While income gaps are less visible for couples … lone fathers, but highest income gap is between single women and single men, with women earning 2.706 PPS less than men (Figure 9). Over a …
… in its gendered impacts across the sectors of employment. Women are over-represented among ‘essential’ workers, … to, for example, particularly high burnout levels among women healthcare workers with children younger than 12 years, … the crisis have also been concentrated in sectors in which women make up the bulk of the workforce. During the first …
… population groups, and consistently disadvantageous for women. As Figure 6 shows, the largest gender gap – 27 p.p. – … in 2019 was among couples with children, with 62 % of women, compared with 89 % of men, in this family grouping … employment gender gap, of 21 p.p., is among foreign-born women and men. This is followed by people with low …
… scores for the financial and economic situations of women and men progressed faster. From 2018 to 2019, the … points). Despite increased educational attainment of women and men in the EU, the gender divide in some fields of …
… of this progress is due to outstanding developments in women’s participation in economic and political … data on time spent on unpaid care and social activities by women and men. The domain of work, despite having the third … risk of poverty and equalising income distribution among women and men, overall, has been negative since 2010. The …
… in health Gender differences in health status Overall, women tend to report worse health than men. In the 27 Member States of the EU (EU-27), 66 % of women and 71 % of men perceive their health to be good or … have a greater effect on the activities of daily living in women than in men. The greater likelihood of women …
… 2020g). Given the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women in the workforce, the score for 2019 is worrying. … across the EU and in forms of employment. For example, women’s FTE employment rate in 2019 was 16 p.p. lower than … situation in Italy is particularly concerning, with the women’s FTE employment rate of 31.4 % being at least 10 p.p. …
… and Oram, S. (2013). Risk factors for mental disorders in women survivors of human trafficking: a historical cohort … violence? Findings from the WHO multi-country study on women’s health and domestic violence. BMC Public Health, … L. J. (2020). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s mental health. Archives of women’s mental health, …
… Gender inequalities in health The conditions in which women and men live, work and spend their time affect their … orientation or disability, influence the resources that women and men can access, their exposure to environmental … from public institutions. Men’s lower life expectancy and women’s poorer mental well-being reflect the effect of gender …
… all domains since 2010, progress has been slow and uneven. Women account for only one in three members of EU national parliaments. Women remain substantially under-represented in corporate … companies, less than 1 in 10 board presidents or CEOs are women. Despite women’s growing involvement in research …
… attainment continues to steadily increase among both young women and men, with women now outpacing men. Gender segregation remains the key … plateaued, as has the upwards trend in the proportion of women studying science, technology, engineering and …