… A catalyst for gender equality in the making Policy debates on work—life balance … their careers. Lifelong learning is also instrumental in women’s reintegration into the labour market following … The correlation with the domain of time suggests a link between the better sharing of care responsibilities within …
… Chapter 2). Men’s weekly working time decreased by 1 hour between 2008 and 2017 (from 41.0 to 40.0 hours). For women, their working week declined by 0.3 hours (or close to … incompatibilities in institutional support for gender equality in labour-market participation. In general, the …
… Women rely more on public infrastructure for work—life … in social and economic activities. The complex interplay between mobility, out-of-home activities, care … relevant to the analysis of work—life balance and gender equality. The existing literature provides much evidence on …
… shared or not, childcare is a key dimension of gender equality Family structures have changed drastically in recent … of dual-earning and single-headed families as more women work outside of the home and not all families have … a whole. While certain policy options may promote equalitybetweenwomenandmen by increasing the labour-market …
… Rising long-term care needs keenly felt by women The EU is currently experiencing unprecedented … and 10 % for men in 2016. Significant variations exist betweenand within Member States in the number of informal … (Panel B in Figure 43). Figure 43: Score of the Gender Equality Index work sub-domain of participation, and (A) the …
… Parental-leave conditions may help or hinder gender equality The increase in female employment rates, coupled … and various labour-market outcomes, such as increased women’s participation in the labour market and reduced gender … place for a child should a parent so wish. A lack of gaps between the end of leave provision and the start of …
… the highest of all six core domains measured in the Gender Equality Index. Figure 28: Scores for the domain of health … Portugal had a higher rate of progress than the EU average between 2015 and 2017 (+ 2.4 p.p., 1 p.p. and 0.9 p.p. … selected and on inequalities among different groups of womenandmen. In 2017 the score for the sub-domain of access …
… The proportion of women in national parliaments (single/lower house) across the … members of parliament. In all other cases, disparities between the quota target andwomen in parliament remain … Political parties often act as gatekeepers against gender equality since they set party policy and select candidates …
… In the EU, more womenandmen graduate from universities than in the past. Between 2005 and 2017, the EU average for tertiary education … through levels of educational segregation, the Gender Equality Index found that, in 2017, 43 % of all women at …
… the domain of knowledge remained virtually static between 2015 and 2017 and only improved by 2.7 points over … forward by improving educational attainment among menandwomen. This is one of the few domains where a gender gap has … segregation in education remains a major block to gender equality in the EU, with this sub-domain showing almost no …
… only to health in surpassing 80 points in the Gender Equality Index. This suggests that, although significant … gaps still exist on financial and economic resources, womenandmen have achieved somewhat more equitable settings … remain below the EU average. Regress (by at least 1 point) between 2015 and 2017 was noted in two Member States (LU, …
… Being a parent continues to hinder women, but not men, in the labour market. FTE employment … couples with children (28 p.p.), very large differences betweenwomenandmen’s labour-market participation were … different groups of womenandmen are affected, the Gender Equality Index also highlights the situation of LGBTQI* …
… In 2017, the FTE employment rate in the EU was 41 % for womenand 57 % for men, an increase of about 1 p.p. for both … Although FTE gender gaps widened (by at least 1 p.p.) between 2015 and 2017 in Denmark, Luxembourg, Malta, the …
… average. Cyprus and Malta also showed very strong progress between 2005 and 2017. On the other hand, and despite slowly … the 77.5 points in 2005 and a more balanced situation for womenandmen. The advance was largely due to gains in … work sub-domain results underline that to achieve gender equality in the work domain, systematically and effectively …
… The Gender Equality Index score of 67.4 points out of 100 for the EU in … Member States need to make considerable advances to ensure womenandmen enjoy equal levels of well-being in all domains … and Denmark (77.5 points) maintaining their top-two status between 2005 and 2017. Figure 1: Gender Equality Index …
… This fourth edition of the Gender Equality Index comes at a turbulent time when gender equality … 2015b), it supports the assessment of policy outcomes on womenandmen. This edition includes scores for 2005, 2010, … Such analysis aims to establish strong connections between work—life balance and gender equality. It also …