… and personal time created by digitalisation have seen paid work increasingly encroaching on leisure time, especially for … of masculinity limit boys and men in their self-care and create barriers to healthy living and well-being. …
… use among caregivers. The reduction of staff in long-term care facilities due to illness and self-isolation and the … it particularly difficult for service providers to ensure work–life balance for their own employees, and their health …
… has led to acute trade-offs in dividing time between paid work, care duties and leisure activities (EIGE, 2021c). With restrictions largely preventing external care services or help from grandparents, friends and …
… subdomain, with a score of 61 points in 2019, than in the care subdomain (69.1 points) (Figure 13). Since 2010, the … same time frame: a rise of 3.7 points in the score for the care subdomain and a drop of 4 points in the score for the … determined by time pressures from both paid and unpaid work (European Parliament, 2016a). In 2019, the …
… 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 …
… scheme was not available in the sectors of their work or, if it was, provided lower benefits, or because they … 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 …
… among ‘essential’ workers, including in the health and care sectors, victim support services, education and food … to COVID-19, but they also experience high levels of work-related stress and emotional exhaustion (Barello et al., … to manage the dual burden of increased workload and more care duties (Duarte et al., 2020). Jobs losses during the …
… migrant women are usually limited to working in low-paid care jobs (Addati, 2018; EIGE, 2020c, 2021d). FRA (2019) … women are considerably less likely than men to be in paid work, with the gender gap ranging from 19 p.p. in France to … and men in couples with children, highlighting how unpaid care duties remain a major obstacle to women taking on paid …
… progress in this area, particularly on monitoring unpaid work. EIGE will fill the gap in the near future by collecting EU-wide data on time spent on unpaid care and social activities by women and men. The domain of work, despite having the third highest score, 71.6 points, …
… 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 …
… negative in the long term. An enormous increase in unpaid care during the COVID-19 crisis – particularly by women – has … progress or even regression is probable. Domain of work With a score of 71.6 points – an increase of only … points (p.p.), is between women and men taking unpaid care of children, followed by a 21 p.p. gap between …
… The domain of work [1] is among the domains to have experienced slowest … by 0.5 points. The subdomain of segregation and quality of work made even less progress in 2019, increasing by only … able to take a few hours off during a working day to take care of personal or family matters and a Career Prospect …
… the role of social constructs, including masculinity and work–family roles. The focus also touches upon other broad … 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 carework, as measured by the domain of time, and access to …