… two off during working hours to take care of personal or family matters. There is also significant overall working … of some work and social protections (e.g. parental leave) for gender equality. The rest of this section briefly … combine work with their disproportionate share of care and family responsibilities. However, the autonomy and …
… or from additional care for older and other dependent family members. In addition, more women than men are involved … women and men to better manage their training, work and family responsibilities. Persistent gender segregation … Directive has bolstered entitlements to family-related leave and flexible working arrangements; for example, it …
… for workers with care responsibilities, carer’s leave, parental leave and increased job protection. The directive also … mothers – to combine work caring for children and older family members with paid work (Fodor et al., 2020). Eurostat …
… inequalities not only in relation to informal care for family members but also in terms of access to leisure time … lone mothers – to combine care work for children and older family members with paid work. Early data show that women … to maternity benefits in the EU, and access to parental leave is also limited for the self-employed in a number of …
… work Public financial allowances, such as paid parental leave, child benefit, carers’ allowances, agricultural … for creating equal opportunities for workers with family responsibilities, and preventing pension gaps. A … leave schemes' can help parents reconcile work and family life, and maintain their connection to the labour …
… of Western Australia, Department for Child Protection, Family and Domestic Violence Unit (2011), Common risk … the evaluation of risk (B-SAFER)’, in Hong Kong Journal of Family Violence, Vol. 23, No 8, p. 727. (47) For example, the … police, social work or other agencies pressuring women to leave an abuser when she may have accurately assessed that …
… or not, childcare is a key dimension of gender equality Family structures have changed drastically in recent decades. … a significant impact on childcare at a time when extended family members, such as grandparents, are less engaged in … a variety of family-friendly measures (including parental leave, flexible working arrangements, childcare provision, …
… either formally by paid professionals or informally by family members, relatives, friends or others. LTC systems … men in the same age group, is not in paid work due to family and/or care responsibilities [3] . Evidence of greater … to take at least 5 working days per year of carers’ leave where a relative has a serious illness or dependency. …
… Parental-leave conditions may help or hinder gender equality The … rates, coupled with the decline of the male breadwinner family model, have unsettled traditional gender work roles … entitlement, an individual transferable entitlement or a family entitlement. The latter means that a family can decide …
… 15 indicators in six specific areas of concern: parental-leave policies; informal care for older people, people with … with other grounds of inequalities (e.g. age or type of family) throughout the course of a life. It applies …