… School and childcare service closures have increased the care burden and created new forms of unpaid care for working parents, including home schooling. Across … lower financial resources and the impossibility of sharing care demands (Alon et al., 2020). Footnotes [1] Preliminary …
… job market, as well as their disproportionate burden of care duties. Gender-sensitive recovery needs to address the gender pay gap by promoting equal share of care responsibilities and by better valorising those working … 2020c). Roma women are also more likely to perform unpaid care work, leading to an employment gap of 18 p.p. with Roma …
… would find it difficult to pay for unexpected dental care (41 % of women and 35 % of men), mental health services … 2018). Access to safe abortion and high-quality maternal care remains unequal across the EU, especially for vulnerable … Eurostat data shows that women represent 88 % of personal care workers, 84 % of cleaners and helpers, 73 % of education …
… doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32114-7 Addati, A. (2018). Care work and care jobs for the future of decent work. Retrieved from … Greer, S. L. (2020). COVID-19 and European Union health policy: From crisis to collective action. Social Policy in …
… to disease, health-related behaviours and access to care. Employment status influences people’s physical and … means that access to affordable and high-quality long-term care is increasingly important. The European Pillar of Social … This limits the ability to evaluate and compare key SRHR policy areas across the EU, for example on maternal health …
… causes of gender inequality, such as economic and public policy factors. Gender inequalities in health status, … and injuries, health-related behaviours and access to care differ between women and men. Gender-biased health … in relation to these dimensions. Time use and unpaid care work, as measured by the domain of time, and access to …
… employment, income, education, power distribution, unpaid care and health. Therefore, it has an essential place in … because of a lack of consensus on definitions or a strong policy framework at national or EU level. Contextual factors …
… life. This includes their health. The burden of unpaid care is increasingly regarded as a determinant of health. … in the labour force and easing their burden of care – such as policies to improve public services or to … households, it is mostly women who provide direct care and do housework (ILO, 2018; Kan et al., 2011). When …
… and lifelong learning have always been high on the EU policy agenda but are now critical in an increasingly … each year by 2030 [1] . Reskilling and upskilling are also policy priorities in the recovery plan for Europe. Equally … due to need to continue working despite increased care responsibilities at home. Tackling gender norms and …
… in the world of work, with unequal distribution of care, family and other household duties a major barrier to … jobs or substantially reducing paid work time to meet care needs. This has consequences for personal income, … on effective active support to employment calls for policy support, backed by EU funding, to those most …
… story “When my organisation introduced a maternity leave policy, they said they had no budget for paternity leave. I … part-time jobs or wish to reduce their hours to provide care have also been found to face discrimination [8] . …
… professional fields . While women are over-represented in care and pre-primary education, men dominate politics and … informal expectations around who is responsible for unpaid care work . Although around 77 % of men aged 20–49 are … only about 10 % of men take advantage of this right [20] . Care responsibilities keep 7.7 million women in the EU out of …
… In coming years, the number of people needing long-term care will increase, given the ageing population and … 2018). In order to contain costs and allow the long-term care system to sustain the pressure of growing patient … any care setting (residential, home or community-based). Policy solutions are being developed, together with …
… of time (which measures gender equality in engagement in care and social activities) and the availability of some … reduction in working hours, for the purposes of providing care.’ In other words, the directive calls for flexibility … by blurred boundaries between leisure time and unpaid care, with phenomena such as contamination (leisure time …
… the only option for people to combine substantial unpaid care responsibilities (primarily taken on by women) with paid … work–life balance and opportunities to combine care and work responsibilities, while men are more likely to … [10] . This highlights the importance of certain recent EU policy actions, such as the adoption of the proposal for a …