… Unpaid care is often taken for granted. It's simply done … But EIGE’s new time use survey focused on care, leisure and volunteering activities reveals unpaid care is in a … men in employment who experience difficulties in combining paidwork with care responsibilities at least 4 days a week …
… can be seen to offer flexibility regarding when, how much and where one works. And this can contribute to gender … This shows that although men and women have similar paidwork responsibilities, household responsibilities are … (17 hours for women and 11 for men). Women’s higher unpaid care responsibilities impact the scheduling of their …
… this speech at the “Remote Work: Challenges, Risks and Opportunities" conference on the future of work, … parents, of cooking three meals a day. This work is not paidand you won’t find it in countries’ balance sheets, but … worse, with women putting in even more hours into their unpaid jobs. Online schooling was work mainly done by …
… this at an event of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) titled We are strong: Women … in our lives. Professional care work is one of the lowest paid occupations in the EU, often accompanied by poor contracts that provide little security. Unpaid care work, the type of work most of us have relied on …
… With International Women’s Day just around the corner, and the EU set to roll out its Covid-19 recovery package … in life. Across the EU, it is no secret that the bulk of unpaid care work is done by women. Well, women’s care work … assumption that caring is still women’s work, even when paid, contributes to its undervaluation. When thinking about …
… the Council of the European Union, the European Commission and the European Women’s Lobby. I want to start with a mental … the pandemic, with 7.7 million women unable to take up paidwork because they were taking care of children and ageing parents. Although this unpaid care work doesn’t show up in governments’ balance …
… start with the obvious. The rights of domestic workers and the quality of their jobs are gender equality issues. In … work is predominantly done by women. The same is true of unpaid domestic labour, which still falls largely on the … will have been the only way you’ve been able to take up paidwork. Because otherwise you would have been doing it …
… improvements in policy, the work-life balance for men and women remains unequal in Europe. The research indicates … example, where paternity leave is transferable, or poorly paid, the take-up is low. Employers may favour male recruits … the mother returns to work. Paternity leave is a paid or unpaid leave of absence from work granted to a father to care …