… mental health affects women and men, and the role that gender norms and relations play in shaping it, can help … in the EU. The following sections give an overview of gender differences in mental health over the life course and … well-being, gender differences are small, with an average gap of 4 points (Figure 29). Figure 29. Self-rated mental …
… expectancy in most EU countries, particularly for men. The gendergap in life expectancy is often attributed to a combination … than women in the population at large (EPHA, 2018). Such gender differences are reflected in data on causes of …
… differently, any analysis of ill health must consider age, gender and the severity of limitations. Women suffer greater … poor working conditions and low socioeconomic status, and gender-based violence (Garcia-Moreno and Watts, 2011; WHO, 2016d). These factors help explain why gender differences in the extent to which health limitations …
… perceive their health to be good or very good (Figure 24). Gender gaps in self-reported health are greater in Portugal, … Portugal, Latvia and Lithuania. Among adolescents, gender gaps in self-reported health are slightly more … over the life course is reflected in the gender pension gap. In the EU in 2019, the average pension received by women …
… of the pandemic on health: poor mental health, a rise in gender-based violence and the provision of SRH services in a … for all Member States, hindering a comprehensive gender analysis of the pandemic’s toll. Men are more likely … to just 4 % in Spain and Portugal. However, the gendergap is small: overall in the EU with 9 % of women said that …
… despite their harmful consequences (Nutbeam, 1998). The Gender Equality Index monitors both types of health … covers activities such as heavy drinking and smoking [1] . Gender is an important social determinant of health, shaping … the target of 3 hours a week (Figure 33). The gendergap in physical activity across the EU is 5 p.p. in men’s …
… lack of comparable administrative or prevalence data on gender-based violence makes it difficult to capture the extent of any increase in gender-based violence during the pandemic. Since it began, … funding (EIGE, 2021a). The study highlighted an important gap in crisis preparedness and crisis management planning …
… With data from 2019, the Gender Equality Index 2021 primarily reflects the … since 2010, and has seen no change since 2018. The largest gender inequalities are found in the health behaviour … EU score is 74.8 points. As discussed in Section 9.1.2, gender norms and relations affect health behaviours. Men are …
… set up everywhere to tackle the pandemic. Assessing the gendergap in these bodies, a recent study by van Daalen et al. (2020) emphasised the exclusion of gender-diverse voices. Covering 87 UN Member States, the …
… on housework; for employed men, this figure is 1.6 hours. Gender gaps in housework participation are the largest among … role model is the primary mechanism for entrenching gender roles in terms of housework responsibilities, ensuring … a week), compared with 53 % of employed men, a gendergap in participation of 40 p.p.; for comparison, the gender …
… the second broadest dispersion of country scores in the Gender Equality Index, after the domain of power. Gender inequality is higher in the social activities … (Figure 14). Footnotes [1] The domain of time measures gender inequalities in the allocation of time to care and …
… as well as their disproportionate burden of care duties. Gender-sensitive recovery needs to address the gender pay gap by promoting equal share of care responsibilities and by …
… children, single people and lone parents suffer striking gender inequalities. Lone mothers earn 2.125 PPS [1] less than lone fathers, but highest income gap is between single women and single men, with women … income inequalities widen, with the result that the gendergap is greatest among older people. Women aged …
… Bulgaria, once more, ranks last. Alarmingly, the poverty gendergap for the EU as a whole was wider in 2019 than in 2010, by … Member State Footnotes [1] The domain of money measures gender inequalities in access to financial resources and in …
… disadvantageous for women. As Figure 6 shows, the largest gendergap – 27 p.p. – in FTE employment in 2019 was among couples … working full time. The second highest FTE employment gendergap, of 21 p.p., is among foreign-born women and men. …
… Although gender equality gains among Member States vary widely, … objective of the EU – is critical. Upward convergence on gender equality – improving performance in Member States … at a faster rate than the EU average. As a result, the gap between the two is increasing (DE, IE, ES, FR, LU, AT and …
… The Gender Equality Index score for the EU-27 is 68.0 points out … is only 4.9 points higher than in 2010 (Figure 1). With gender equality inching forward by only 1 point every … particularly on monitoring unpaid work. EIGE will fill the gap in the near future by collecting EU-wide data on time …