… Lack of adequate childcare, structural barriers, and societal ideas about what women’s work should look like … average, women across the EU have carried out 36 hours of unpaidwork a week. This is 2,000 hours a year. 2,000 hours a … women increased. There are women who are not seeking paidwork by choice. Before Covid, this figure had been …
… hundreds of people joining us online from all over Europe and beyond. I am so glad, that despite these challenging … to the spotlight. The importance of care work, whether paid or unpaid, and its unequal distribution between women and men is …
… 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 …