… AI. Here they can face challenges such as male-dominated work environments, stereotyping, sexual harassment, and a … throughout history, those kinds of systems don’t tend to work so well for women. Without representation, women miss … AI professionals. Here I’d like to highlight the good work being done by the people behind initiatives such as …
… put in place pandemic recovery budgets and policies that work for both women and men. As our economies start to … as challenges. For instance, in childcare. Unpaid care work in the home really exploded for women during the … can protect gender equality by building “economies that work for people”, which is also the key topic of a campaign …
… with women being less likely to have a job, more likely to work part-time and in less senior position. The fact that … birth of each child, shows the impact of this unpaid care work on women’s lives. The best way to neutralise these … entirely made up of women. Even though they have the vital work of shaping our children’s early education, they are some …
… load, gender equality in teleworking and unpaid care work after the pandemic". Good morning all, Early last year, … Parliament called for the “right to disconnect” from work. This is a good thing: telework during the pandemic … between the home and the workplace. Neither is good for work-life balance or mental health. Yet there’s another kind …
… monitor gender equality progress. We are able to do this work thanks to the European Commission’s Instrument of … Gender Statistics for Creating Better Policies EIGE's work with EU candidate countries and potential candidates …
… (EIGE) shows that artificial intelligence and platform work (also called gig work), have the potential to improve gender equality in the … sexism and discrimination, while entrenching insecure work and a lack of social protection. EIGE’s Director Carlien …
… challenges to the spotlight. The importance of care work, whether paid or unpaid, and its unequal distribution … Gender Equality Index is on digitalisation, the future of work and most importantly, the consequences for gender …
… Carlien Scheele delivered this speech at the “Remote Work: Challenges, Risks and Opportunities" conference on the future of work, organised by the 2021 Portuguese Presidency of the … opened up the panel on “Connecting and disconnecting and work-life balance”. The European Parliament has called for …
… be cared for at some point in our lives. Professional care work is one of the lowest paid occupations in the EU, often … poor contracts that provide little security. Unpaid care work, the type of work most of us have relied on to make it past our 10th …
… in retail, accommodation, residential care, domestic work and clothing manufacturing suffered heavy job losses, … the EU, it is no secret that the bulk of unpaid care work is done by women. Well, women’s care work really exploded during the pandemic, with online …
… on being a strong ally of the Council of Europe. In our work on gender-based violence, we focus especially on … We also look beyond the police and justice sector in our work. We have carried out interviews with witnesses of …
… 1957, we’ve been signed up to the principle that equal work of equal value should be paid the same, regardless of … less than men because they hold less senior positions, work in fields with lower pay, and spend significantly more … women are concentrated in poorly paid fields like care work, while men dominate highly paid fields like ICT, is a …
… pandemic, with 7.7 million women unable to take up paid work because they were taking care of children and ageing parents. Although this unpaid care work doesn’t show up in governments’ balance sheets, it has … not by their families. Globally, the value of unpaid care work has been estimated at around 9 trillion euros each …
… how we can bring more gender equality into the domestic work sector. Let’s start with the obvious. The rights of … were women. Because the official data is clear: domestic work is predominantly done by women. The same is true of … have been the only way you’ve been able to take up paid work. Because otherwise you would have been doing it …