… in its fastest-growing sector? Ahead of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11 February, let’s take … in working in the green sector. Where women account for 22 % of workers in the conventional energy sector in the … EIGE’s Gender Equality Index also explores how jobs in care, health and education should also be the focus of a just …
… 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 …
… feminist meeting ‘We Call It Feminism: Feminism for a better world’ on 25 February addressing new ways to revolutionise the care system. Good afternoon to you all. It’s wonderful to be … 40% of women and 21% of men spend more than 5 hours per day on providing informal childcare to their own children. …
… Council in Brussels on 8 December 2022 on why the European Care Strategy offers much needed hope for the future. Dear Chair, dear Ministers, Thank you to the … likely than men to be involved in childcare throughout the day - from the crack of dawn through to bedtime. No wonder …
… pandemic’s parameters have eased, the occasion was calling for us to bring EU institutions, Member States as well as EU … and also for many, homes became improvised schools and day-care centres. The situation was surreal. And I am sure it is …
… interconnections between changes in unpaid and paid work for women and men during the pandemic, the role of government … of a questionnaire which explores the share of informal care in the household for two time periods, before the … caring for their children/grandchildren (aged 0-11) every dayfor 4 hours or more during the pandemic (%, 20–64, EU, …
… 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 …
… In March 2002, the European Council decided to set targets for the availability of childcare facilities: “Member States … to 44 spend three times longer than men in childcare per day. Likewise, care responsibilities account for the main reason women work …