… a reality for everyone in every area. Gender norms around care, gender segregation in education and the labour market, … are most needed. The 2022 Index has a thematic focus on care in the pandemic. It explores the division of informal childcare, long-term care and housework between women and men. …
… pandemic, women have been doing about 36 hours of unpaid care work a week. That’s almost 2,000 hours a year, which, to … to a full-time job over the course of a year. This unpaid care work that is essential to our economies. The children … of our pensions. No wonder then, that the value of unpaid care work has been estimated to be around 9 trillion euros …
… I believe we should be taking away from the data. That is: care is critical to our economies and to our lives. It seems obvious: we need carers to raise children, to take care of older people and those with disabilities, and those … the way we treat carers does not reflect the importance of care, the fact that each and every one of us will need to be …