… 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 neighbours, care has been provided mainly from within the family. The …
… 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 …
… 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 …
… 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 …
… 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 …