… unequally shared of the three most common forms of unpaid care, the other two being childcare and long-term care for older people and people with disabilities and other … (Figure 15), demonstrating an enduring imbalance in unpaid care responsibilities within families [2] . Research shows …
… 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 … measures gender inequalities in the allocation of time to care and domestic work and social activities. The first …
… 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 …
… among ‘essential’ workers, including in the health and care sectors, victim support services, education and food … to manage the dual burden of increased workload and more care duties (Duarte et al., 2020). Jobs losses during the … sectors such as the retail trade, hospitality, residential care, domestic work and clothes manufacturing (EIGE, 2021c). …
… migrant women are usually limited to working in low-paid care jobs (Addati, 2018; EIGE, 2020c, 2021d). FRA (2019) … and men in couples with children, highlighting how unpaid care duties remain a major obstacle to women taking on paid … crisis has exacerbated the situation. Despite unpaid care acting as a major buffer in managing the spread of …
… 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 … points (p.p.), is between women and men taking unpaid care of children, followed by a 21 p.p. gap between … segregation and the highly unequal distribution of unpaid care duties. The pandemic could stall or even erase gender …
… doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32114-7 Addati, A. (2018). Care work and care jobs for the future of decent work. Retrieved from … Against Sexual and Gender Minority in Health Care Settings. International Journal of Health Services, …
… 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 … Social Rights – particularly those relating to long-term care needs – has taken on a greater urgency in the light of …
… 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 … The primary responsibility to provide health and social care lies with Member States. While the EU can complement and …
… eating fruit and vegetables. Access to health and dental care also reveals disparities, especially when gender is … the need for gender equality of access to long-term care services, healthy working environments and social … such as people with disabilities and to reform long-term care provision in the EU are proposed in the social rights …
… 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 …