… rates of mental health problems among girls and young women may be related to permanent concerns over physical … social media use. The ‘beauty myth’, by which girls and women are subjected to unachievable standards of beauty, … and self-confidence with competition with other women, is reinforced in online spaces (EIGE, 2019b). …
… . With entrenched gender segregation in the labour market, women’s over-representation in precarious work and the continued … 15 % and 25 % of respondents in different cross-cutting studies(Eurofound, 2018b). The same Eurofound study found …
… hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Across the EU, women have consistently higher rates of internalising … adolescence. Gender-specific data on pre-school children’s mental health is scarce. More evidence on gender … Analysis of GBD [1] data shows that in 2019 36.7 million women and 34.1 million men aged over 20 years in the EU …
… addressed. Understanding how poor mental health affects women and men, and the role that gender norms and relations … et al., 2016) . Similar results have been found in other studies, with single parents suffering worse mental health … slightly more than it does men. The difference in women’s mental well-being index score between the lowest and …
… status of a population (Johnson et al., 2020). On average, women in the EU are expected to live until 84 years of age, … roles of women and men (Hoffmann et al., 2018). Men’s lower life expectancy reflects their thinking on … and Slovakia (OECD/European Union, 2020). Similarly, studies show that women educated to tertiary level live …
… As health limitations increase with age and affect women and men differently, any analysis of ill health must … daily activities are higher among older groups, to women’s detriment (Ogg and Rašticová, 2020). For example, among … significant gender gaps in health literacy [4] . Several studies show that women are more likely to have general …
… self-assessed health or self-perceived health) is a person’s subjective evaluation of their current health status (Lorem et al., 2017). Overall, women tend to report worse health than men (Nesson and … 2014; Siegrist et al., 2016). For example, a review of 27 studies found that temporary work explained between 11 % and …
… from COVID-19 will be felt for years to come. The pandemic’s impact has been very unequal across the EU and over time. … COVID-19 deadlier for men, ‘long COVID’ more likely for women There are considerable variations in how data is … of the prevalence of long COVID are emerging, with some studies finding that the phenomenon could affect half of …
… of the ICPD in Cairo and the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing (1995), governments and advocates have … but also of men and families (Starrs et al., 2018). Men’s reproductive health issues include male factor infertility, … , 2017. Studies from Europe and worldwide show that family planning …
… different everyday life activities [1] . The respondents, women and men alike, ranked health services as the most … reasons (Wang et al., 2013). The fact that women’s greater familiarity with the health and social services … are largely unstudied (Pulver et al., 2016). Many studies have focused on how healthcare practices based on …
… social determinant of health, shaping and reproducing how women and men engage in health behaviour. Research often … gap in physical activity across the EU is 5 p.p. in men’s favour. Estonia is the only Member State where slightly … 8.3 % in Romania to 22 % in Austria for women. Several studies have identified factors linked to smoking and adverse …
… 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 … during the pandemic. Since it began, media and women’s organisations have reported a sharp increase in demand for …
… While violence affects all women, some groups face a higher risk (EIGE, 2020a). The 2019 … the preceding 5 years among specific groups. These include women self-identifying as lesbian, bisexual or ‘other’ … also showed that disability substantially increases women’s vulnerability to violence, especially from a close or …
… data, even for the most severe forms of violence against women. Of all the indicators used to gauge the extent of this … of a woman as a result of a practice that is harmful to women’ [1] . The challenge is to capture the gendered nature … were apparent (Dobash and Dobash, 2015). Since EIGE’s composite measure of the extent of violence was first …
… The lack of women’s presence in decision-making bodies established globally to … calls for this to be redressed (WHO, 2020g). Although women make up 70 % of health professionals and 80 % of health …
… 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, … jobs. The COVID-19 crisis is likely to worsen women’s economic situation, as their over-representation in sectors …
… in its gendered impacts across the sectors of employment. Women are over-represented among ‘essential’ workers, … and emotional exhaustion (Barello et al., 2020). Emerging studies point to, for example, particularly high burnout levels among women healthcare workers with children younger than 12 years, …
… 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 decision-making in … data on time spent on unpaid care and social activities by women and men. The domain of work, despite having the third …