… 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 on the boards of the largest listed companies in the EU‑28 more than doubled between 2010 and 2018 (from 12 % to 26 %), after the European … political inaction and virtual stagnation on gender equality in economic power and decision-making. A recent …
… 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, …
… 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 …
… the most common and documented forms of violence against women. Unlike other domains, the domain of violence does not measure differences betweenwomenandmen, but examines and analyses women’s … measure does not affect the final score of the Gender Equality Index. However, violence against women must be …
… The time that womenandmen have for personal matters and their families … care for others, it implies the negotiation of boundaries between paid and unpaid work (Hochschild, 1997), as well as … womenandmen remains a major hurdle to progress on gender equality. Hence, current and future policy initiatives need …
… high-quality educational process for girls and boys andwomenandmen provide benefits at individual and societal … is also a tool to raise awareness of the key principles of equalitybetweenwomenandmenand to prevent a backlash against …