… 10 years of commitment and advocacy for domestic and home care in the EU, EIGE’s Director, Carlien Scheele gave an address at the Domestic and Home Care EU Congress on 14 November 2023 hosted by the European Federation for Family Employment and Home Care at the EGG Center in Brussels Good morning to the …
… EU policy framework: employment, income, education, unpaid care, decision-making, health. The analysis is complemented … first time, the Index incorporates EIGE’s survey data on care. This data sheds new light on the domain of time, which … looks at gender inequalities in the allocation of time to care, domestic work, leisure and social activities. This …
… violence, the Index 2022 ’s thematic focus on unpaid care, the twin green and digital transitions and the … gaps regarding work life balance policies and informal care. With regards to Member States, we also intend to visit … survey on the gendered use of time when it comes to unpaid care and social activities. These findings will be published …
… which this year focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic and care – published this October 2022. “This is the kind of … when it is not fairly shared or when good and affordable care systems do not exist”, says EIGE’S Director, Carlien … Scheele. The report takes a deep dive into three types of care – childcare, long-term care and housework – and assesses …
… the private space – they completed domestic tasks provided care for children and elderly, and were generally excluded … for me to continuing working? I realise that the growing care burdens and inflexibility of my employers leave me no … the spaces collapsed – home and work merged into one. Care responsibilities exploded. And even though men doubled …
… 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 …