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... either unable to work or continuing virtually. This excludes workers categorised as ‘essential’, who continued their jobs on the ... of the workers providing home-based professional care to older people and people with disabilities are women. Across the EU, it’s ...
05 April 2020 - ResourceEmployment
This paper explores the employment figures for older women, aged 55-64 in the EU15. Current policies on “active aging” and ... Bould, Sally and Casaca, Sara Falcão (2012) “Older women workers and the European Union’s employment goals: bringing gender into the ...
- Toolkit page
... perceived as a ‘family’ choice, poverty rates among older people reflect the adverse impact on women’s individual well-being from ... earnings by ethnicity showed a larger gender gap among Roma workers than non-Roma workers (O’Higgins, 2015). Disability also ...
- Toolkit page
... As such, research highlights the increasing role of domestic workers, often migrant women, in the provision of LTC at home in several EU ... LTC in the EU [4] . At EU level, the informal LTC rate for older people and/or people with disabilities was 15 % for women and 10 % for ...
- Good practiceEmployment
... of parents working flexible hours. Children can bring their older siblings (up to the age of 10) in the evening and night, and parents can ...
09 March 2015 - Method/ToolHealth, Violence
This training is aimed mainly at workers in all helping professions, who come within their profession into ... specific indicators and manifestations of violence against older people, pointing out the necessary procedures to help seniors and the ...
01 January 2010 - Policy areaEducation
... 2020 at least 95% of preschool children aged four years or older should participate in early childhood education. Primary and ... a significant gender gap (22 p.p.) between women and men workers aged 15 to 64 in these fields in the EU-28. The glass ceiling index ...
05 March 2015 - News articleEmployment
... Let’s start with the obvious. The rights of domestic workers and the quality of their jobs are gender equality issues. In the ... no longer be able to provide free-of charge care for their older relatives in the home. Instead, the state would have to take on this ...
28 June 2021 - News articleEmployment
... workforce. Eurofound examines working conditions for workers of all ages, related work sustainability outcomes and how the right ... followed by a call for active ageing solutions that ensure older workers remain active, skilled and employed. Read the full joint ...
30 June 2017 - Toolkit page
... work, including housework, care for children, and care for older people and people with disabilities (EIGE, 2019b). While most EU ... forgo adequate care entirely, relying instead on domestic workers in precarious working conditions or providing care themselves (EIGE, ...
- Policy areaEnergy
... Lone female-headed households, and lone women and older women are all at a higher risk of fuel poverty than men. Energy ... production. The more skilled jobs in these areas – metal workers, insulation specialists, plumbers and pipe fitters, electricians, ...
05 March 2015 - Good practicePoverty
... sector. This is due to the fact that one third of the workers in the local authority sector will retire at the same time as the share of older people and children in the population requiring services is increasing. ...
17 October 2016