… numbers of women, who make up about three quarters of the health workforce in the EU. Yet those taking decisions about … pandemic, women have been doing about 36 hours of unpaid care work a week. That’s almost 2,000 hours a year, which, to … jobs in a growing industry. As I mentioned earlier, professional sectors dominated by men have long had some of …
… equality challenges to the spotlight. The importance of care work, whether paid or unpaid, and its unequal … come. Next year, our Index will take an in-depth look at health and gender equality, and in particular, the different … Our Gender Equality Index shows us that as our private and professional lives go increasingly digital, we must ensure …
… generous parental leave and its well-developed public day-care services, education, health and infrastructure, workplaces have not been put under … equality skills are developed which add value to professional roles, to deliver equality as ‘Netlighters’. …
… employees a number of measures to help reconcile their professional and personal life such as flexible working … to take an unpaid leave or work part-time in order to care for a disabled or elderly relative or a child with a serious health condition. Both options are temporary and limited to a …
… AON is a multinational professional services company that provides a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions. The AON Centre for Innovation and Analytics … women remain the default carers in Irish society: family care work is unequally shared between women (70%) and men …