… gender-based violence is one of the European Commission’s policy priorities for the period 2020-2025, as set out in … their institutional response to combating violence against women together with collecting comprehensive and comparable … communication abilities. The fieldwork for EIGE’s major studies and research on combating GBV is typically contracted …
… 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 …
… a widespread phenomenon in the European Union, affecting women disproportionally – in 2012, one in three women aged 15 … sexual violence. Although a price cannot be put on women’s lives and suffering, estimating the lost economic output … violence in the EU is accompanied by a critical review of studies carried out within the EU to estimate the costs of …
… 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 …
… 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 …