… housework. Yet these kinds of jobs rarely provide a formal employment contract, which means their flexibility is limited … they cannot choose. Like others in non-standard forms of employment, they were rarely eligible for government support … workers, which would help bring more of them into formal employment. This status would bring many more rights, such as …
… in paid work than men, with 67 % of working age women in employment, compared to 79 % of men. That’s an important … aimed to have 75 % of the working age population in employment by the end of 2020. While men have surpassed this … themselves unable to take up paid work. Currently, this employment loss costs the EU economy some €370 billion each …
… in the aftermath of the economic crisis has left the employment policy largely gender blind. Thus the Europe 2020 … a target of having 75 % of the working age population in employment by 2020 but does not distinguish between women and men. While the overall EU employment rate is getting closer to this target (72.2 % in …