… Marking 10 years of commitment and advocacy for domestic and home care in the EU, EIGE’s Director, Carlien Scheele gave an … than women perceive facing work-life tensions nearly every day. If we look at cooking and/or housework every day and …
… Unpaid care is often taken for granted. It's simply done without question as a labour of … twice as many women spend at least 5 hours every day caring forchildren than men. Women and men in employment …
… equality through enabling a better work-life balance. For example, allowing people with childcare responsibilities, … because it is often performed outside the regular working day , though more often by men than by women. As many as 36 % … who perform high levels of household work, childcare or carefor disabled, elderly or infirm persons. Just over half …
… in 2010. Given that the Gender Equality Index 2022 focuses for the first time mainly on data from the first pandemic … background were at an even higher risk. An uptick in care responsibilities An uptick in overall care … this backdrop, EIGE is organising for the first time a two-day Gender Equality Forum in Brussels and online. The aim is …
… New evidence from the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) shows that artificial intelligence … ride hailing. AI is also increasingly becoming part of our day-to-day lives, so it is good the EU is drawing up … can pose a particular threat to those caring for small children. In platform work, there is a higher share of men …
… and work-life balance”. The European Parliament has called for the “right to disconnect” from work. This is a good … talking about the work of raising children, of taking care of ageing parents, of cooking three meals a day. This work is not paid and you won’t find it in …
… event was organised in cooperation with the Directorate for Relations with National Parliaments. The speech opened up … I believe we should be taking away from the data. That is: care is critical to our economies and to our lives. It seems … the EU, a spectacular 79 % of women do housework every day, compared to 34 % of men. Well, during the pandemic, …
… this speech at an event titled Gender Equality As a Driver for Recovery, organised by the Portuguese Presidency of the … European Union on 5 March 2021. With International Women’s Day just around the corner, and the EU set to roll out its … Women working in retail, accommodation, residential care, domestic work and clothing manufacturing suffered heavy …
… Members of the European Parliament, dear guests, Thank you for inviting EIGE- the European Institute for Gender Equality … Tomorrow [5 March], ahead of the International Women’s Day, EIGE will release the results of the review. It shows … of women being kept out of the labour market due to care responsibilities. Currently, 37.5 % of women in the EU …
… In the lead up to International Women’s Day on 8 March, the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) has released new findings on the … EU. Women working in retail, accommodation, residential care, domestic work and clothing manufacturing suffered heavy …
… is a direct link between the unequal division of unpaid care in households and gender inequality in the labour … market, according to a study by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE). Across the EU, the bulk of unpaid … care work. Across the EU, they spend 90 minutes more per day than employed men on unpaid care. ‘’The benefits of …