… 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 …
… 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 …
… 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 …
… 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 …
… of women being kept out of the labour market due to care responsibilities. Currently, 37.5 % of women in the EU care for children, the elderly, or people with disabilities … than the population of Denmark. Unequal distribution of care responsibilities and other forms of unpaid work largely …
… (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 …