… November 2023 hosted by the European Federation for Family Employment and Home Care at the EGG Center in Brussels Good … to the members of the European Federation for Family Employment & home care and to my fellow panel members. It is … can give around 7.7 million European women who are out of employment because of care responsibilities, a chance to …
… a range of areas relevant to the EU policy framework: employment, income, education, unpaid care, decision-making, … mostly led by increased participation of women in employment in the last 10 years. The Domain of KNOWLEDGE is … at home, home delivery services or increased women’s employment all contributed to this change. But we cannot …
… 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 …
… shows that following five years of growth at EU-level, employment declined for both women and men in all EU Member … less women than men in the labour market to begin with, employment declined for both groups by 2.4 %. Rising employment rates during the summer of 2020 did not …
… share of caring activities crucial to reaching the EU’s employment target The European Union could more quickly reach the employment target set out in the 2020 growth strategy – at least 75% employment rate of the EU population aged 20-64 – by …