… 10 years of commitment and advocacy for domestic and home care in the EU, EIGE’s Director, Carlien Scheele gave an address at the Domestic and Home Care EU Congress on 14 November 2023 hosted by the European Federation for Family Employment and Home Care at the EGG Center in Brussels Good morning to the …
… EU policy framework: employment, income, education, unpaid care, decision-making, health. The analysis is complemented … first time, the Index incorporates EIGE’s survey data on care. This data sheds new light on the domain of time, which … looks at gender inequalities in the allocation of time to care, domestic work, leisure and social activities. This …
… background were at an even higher risk. An uptick in care responsibilities An uptick in overall care responsibilities during the pandemic was revealed … on critical aspects related to the time spent on unpaid care. However, the increase was not evenly distributed …
… in the workplace. These ideas lead me to my second topic. Care. Care responsibilities should never cause anyone to leave … And during the pandemic home and work merged into one. Care responsibilities exploded. Covid recovery plans must …
… across the EU have been doing some 36 hours of unpaid care work each week during the pandemic, which is almost … allow telework to become dominated by mothers trying to care for children at the same time as doing their job, while … we need is in the home. To give men the opportunity to care for their children right from day 1, governments should …
… The survey collected data on the thematic areas of unpaid care, paid work, services, support and well-being. The data … in paid and unpaid work driven by workplace, school and care facility closures due to lockdown measures? What changes in domestic and institutional settings (e.g. mobility) would further support …