… 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 …
… 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, … and reskilling opportunities (EIGE, 2019e). For men, care and family duties are not a structural constraint to …
… 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 … numbers, countries are promoting independent living in any care setting (residential, home or community-based). Policy …
… in platform work, with the imbalanced division of care between women and men restricting women’s choices more … structural bias in the gender division of unpaid work and care responsibilities, restricting women’s choices in the … those who are working fewer hours, particularly women with care responsibilities, and those with poor health. A study of …
… 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 … to arrange an hour or two off during working hours to take care of personal or family matters. There is also significant …
… dominated by women, such as schoolteacher or personal care worker in a residential service, are considered … difficult to automate. In fact, the number of personal care workers has risen substantially in recent years …
… they work as front-line providers of healthcare and social care. A study of eight countries found that women are more … may have been aggravated by the unbalanced division of care responsibilities within the family. Living in lockdown … are at particular risk and who may also be cut off from care by physical distancing. Women, particularly older women, …