… of Bulgaria. As our societies age and more people require care, an increasing number of women may find themselves … the most difficulty juggling work, home-schooling and care. If a shift towards telework does indeed end up being … home will encourage them to take on a bigger share of the care load. This would be the most powerful way to end …
… significantly more likely to take career breaks to take care of children. This can eat into the time they are able to … EU are kept out of paid work because they are providing care. To put that into perspective, that is about equal to … well as a healthy work-life balance, men should be taking care of children just as much as women are. Governments may …
… who live with a violent partner. The important matter of care and who takes on this essential work, whether it’s paid … clock, putting themselves and their families at risk to care for patients. Women are potentially more at risk of … (76 %) of healthcare workers in the EU. The formal care sector comes with its challenges in working conditions. …
… talking about the work of raising children, of taking care of ageing parents, of cooking three meals a day. This … taxpayers. The ageing parents would otherwise be taken care of by the state. Globally, the value of this invisible … working, it is therefore critical to balance out unpaid care and housework. Otherwise, inequality between women and …
… Women working in retail, accommodation, residential care, domestic work and clothing manufacturing suffered heavy … derail women’s employment gains is the unequal sharing of care, which can hold women back from entering the job market, … Across the EU, it is no secret that the bulk of unpaid care work is done by women. Well, women’s care work really …
… Europe is an ageing continent and women are often taking care of their parents, as well as children. Our data shows … where women are concentrated in poorly paid fields like care work, while men dominate highly paid fields like ICT, is … we should have just as many campaigns to get men into care work as we do to get women into ICT. Both should be seen …
… women unable to take up paid work because they were taking care of children and ageing parents. Although this unpaid care work doesn’t show up in governments’ balance sheets, it … if not by their families. Globally, the value of unpaid care work has been estimated at around 9 trillion euros each …
… are women. When it comes to those who provide professional care at home, 83 % are women. And that’s just the figures … us at home. To clean our house, for example, or to take care of our ageing parents. And I am sure that more often … as they would no longer be able to provide free-of charge care for their older relatives in the home. Instead, the …
… The survey collected data on the thematic areas of unpaid care, paid work, services, support and well-being. The data … in paid and unpaid work driven by workplace, school and care facility closures due to lockdown measures? What changes … How did the amount of household work, including care, change due to the COVID-19 crisis and did this lead to …
… violence or based on the complicity of the authorities or care providers • Death of women by police persecution and … marginalisation and risk (included authority, control and care relationship) • Femicide 65+ EIGE presents a … family - Friends or acquaintances of the victim - Care relationship (carer, doctor, nurse, etc.) - …
… (2021d) has highlighted the continued burden of unpaid care on women, whether or not they are employed. It has also … than women in stable work. However, the demands of unpaid care are rarely analysed as a social determinant of mental … work (Valero et al., 2020). Gender disparities in unpaid care widened during the COVID-19 pandemic. The closure of …
… men, as priority was given to healthcare and residential care workers – both groups mostly composed of women. At the … within 30 days of COVID-19 diagnosis and of intensive care unit admission were also higher among men (Kragholm et … to be hospitalised and to be admitted to an intensive care unit, accounting for 53 % of hospitalised patients and …
… in the EU (ECDC, 2021). Abortion, pregnancy and maternal care disparities across the European Union Estimates suggest … et al., 2020). This shows that abortion services and care are essential components of public health, to ensure … peers in other Member States. (Picken, 2020). Maternal care inequalities persist, especially for migrants Although …