… to gender equality through enabling a better work-life balance. For example, allowing people with childcare … important for women and men who perform high levels of household work, childcare or care for disabled, elderly or … persons. Just over half of platform workers live in a household with children either as single parents or as a …
… greater mobility to widen their career options. This work-life breathability has become a benchmark for the 28 million … equality, especially when we look at it from the work-life balance perspective. Platform work allows for multiple … income as it offers more flexibility to combine work with household tasks or family commitments. Men’s motivations are …
… to the gender pay gap, and the gender pension gap later in life. Across the EU, it is no secret that the bulk of unpaid … that telework is used to balance work and family life, particularly among women. However, telework is not a … staff with decent salaries. First, we need changes at the household level, so that an equal sharing of care tasks …
… paid employment declined, while the amount of unpaid household work and childcare increased significantly. Even though men doubled their share of household work, women still shouldered the bulk of the load. … of a digital workforce, but it also increased work-life balance tensions, especially for women. When the economy …
… children might miss out on opportunities to live a normal life and socialise with people their own age. Cost is a major … More importantly, it gives people a better quality of life, allowing people to make decisions about their lives and …
… Of 27 countries in a global study on unpaid family and household work, Irish households spent the largest amount of daily time (29%) on care for household members. Related to the allotted role of women in … more of the challenges of reconciling work and family life. This is apparently incompatible with the tech …
… consider boys better at learning digital skills. Later in life, they look for career options elsewhere and overlook the … One less-known factor is the favourable approach to work-life balance. Taking a few hours off from work during the day … for women, who still tend to take a lion’s share of household and care responsibilities and therefore do not have …
… risk of poverty and insecurity. Especially when unexpected life events occur, such as job loss, family break-up, serious … relatives keeps many women out of paid work and this has life-long consequences for their career, financial situation … age, ethnicity, migrant background, disability or type of household can affect a person’s vulnerability to poverty and …
… activities on the reconciliation for work and family life, which are embedded in a strong culture of equality and … and radios, and also makes industrial control systems, household appliances, power tools and security systems. Based … generations and internationality, family-friendliness/work-life balance constitutes a central building block of this …
… the unequal distribution of care responsibilities in the household and the way institutional structures consider and … stemming from education and training; differences in household roles and the distribution of unpaid work; entry … is the challenge of reconciling work, family and private life. The labour market participation of mothers is 11.5% …