… 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, … their access to SRHR. In some Member States, women who work as au pairs must be unmarried and without children as a …
… 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 … on its own’, lack of time (‘Could not take time because of work, care for children or for others’) and waiting times. In …
… 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 … and personal time created by digitalisation have seen paid work increasingly encroaching on leisure time, especially for …
… cause of poor health in the EU, with varying impacts on women and men. Exposure and vulnerability to NCDs is shaped … Men are more likely to perceive their health as good Women are more likely to have health limitations over their … mental disorders begin early in life Gender-based violence Work stressors Traditional norms of masculinity Body image …
… restrictions on movement to contain COVID-19 have trapped women and girls at home with their abusers. If victims of … during the pandemic. Since it began, media and women’s organisations have reported a sharp increase in demand for … it particularly difficult for service providers to ensure work–life balance for their own employees, and their health …
… the EU. Though the full effects of the pandemic on people’s health are not clear, they are likely to be far-reaching. … Section 9.2.2. explores the specific ways in which women and men are affected by COVID-19 in terms of infection … large-scale job losses – and much more unpaid care work for women during the pandemic have been put forward as …
… Men are more likely to smoke and drink excessively, while women face multiple obstacles to physical activity. Such … in the EU (Table 3 of the thematic focus). The EU’s Beating Cancer Plan emphasises the importance of tackling … to have little income because they either are not in paid work or are in precarious jobs (EIGE, 2017b). Figure 22. …
… has led to acute trade-offs in dividing time between paid work, care duties and leisure activities (EIGE, 2021c). With … unpaid care duties has caused acute work–life tensions for women and men (Craig and Churchill, 2020; EIGE, 2020b, 2020g, … particularly fathers who lost jobs and men in couples with women in essential work (EIGE, 2021c), the impact has been …
… 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 … clear that adolescent girls and young women do more unpaid work in the childhood home than their male counterparts – and …
… that participation in social activities contributes to one’s subjective well-being (Brajša-Žganec et al., 2011). Access … determined by time pressures from both paid and unpaid work (European Parliament, 2016a). In 2019, the … subdomain, of care activities, measures gender gaps in women’s and men’s involvement in the care and/or education of …
… Estonia (+ 7.7 points). By contrast, since 2018, Sweden’s score has dropped by 1.4 points and France’s has dropped by … and (dis)ability influence income disparities between women and men. While income gaps are less visible for couples … job segregation, differences in pension systems, and work intensity and pay over a lifetime (EIGE, 2015). Across …
… of 76.9 points means that there is still much to do on women’s access to financial resources. The pace of change in the … includes women’s and men’s mean monthly earnings from work and mean equivalised net income (from pensions, …
… in its gendered impacts across the sectors of employment. Women are over-represented among ‘essential’ workers, … to COVID-19, but they also experience high levels of work-related stress and emotional exhaustion (Barello et al., … to, for example, particularly high burnout levels among women healthcare workers with children younger than 12 years, …
… 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 … women are considerably less likely than men to be in paid work, with the gender gap ranging from 19 p.p. in France to …
… scores for the financial and economic situations of women and men progressed faster. From 2018 to 2019, the … 1.4 points. While gender equality scores in the domain of work grew steadily from 2010, progress almost stalled in all … 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 … progress in this area, particularly on monitoring unpaid work. EIGE will fill the gap in the near future by collecting …
… 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 … in the care sector. The true extent of the pandemic’s mental health consequences will take time to unfurl, with …
… unpaid care during the COVID-19 crisis – particularly by women – has put a spotlight on long-standing gender … progress or even regression is probable. Domain of work With a score of 71.6 points – an increase of only … influence of gender roles and stereotypes on women’s participation in the labour market, and thus on their …