… the Dependant Care Leave in 2018. It is a special paid leave designed to support staff in cases of serious … conditions related to dependants. Alongside the right of unpaid leave, the institute made provisions for paid dependant care leave and is granted after the employee has exhausted their annual …
… The working environment for those in paid jobs often causes chronic stress and may lead to burnout and depressive symptoms. Workers … and the continued difficult articulation between paidandunpaidwork, work-related stressors are likely to have …
… were simultaneously battling a third wave of COVID-19 and aggressively rolling out large-scale vaccination … could be due both to social isolation and to the increased unpaid workload from school closures or movement restrictions … have faced acute tensions from balancing the demands of paidandunpaidwork when support services and social …
… affected individuals’ opportunities as regards time use and space. Multiple lockdowns, movement restrictions, the … has led to acute trade-offs in dividing time between paidwork, care duties and leisure activities (EIGE, 2021c). … of home schooling as a new and additional form of unpaidwork for parents (see Chapter 4) affected families …
… most unequally shared of the three most common forms of unpaid care, the other two being childcare and long-term care for older people and people with … care work is greater for women in non-standard and low-paid jobs. EWCS data shows that women in temporary jobs or …
… the score for the domain of time [1] since the 2020 Index, and a negative longer-term rating for 2010–2019. As shows, … of life, is largely determined by time pressures from both paidandunpaidwork (European Parliament, 2016a). In 2019, the …
… 2020g). Women were already more likely than men to be in unpaid, low-paid or temporary jobs. The COVID-19 crisis is likely to … reduced (EIGE, 2021c; ILO, 2021). Women aged between 15 and 24 years were the group most likely to lose their job in …
… among ‘essential’ workers, including in the health and care sectors, victim support services, education and food … but which have become more challenging because of ongoing unpaid care duties during COVID-19 restrictions (Klatzer and … index of total actual hours worked reveals that time in paid jobs fell by 6.1 index points for women and by 4.3 index …
… rates are widely divergent across population groups, and consistently disadvantageous for women. As Figure 6 … migrant women are usually limited to working in low-paid care jobs (Addati, 2018; EIGE, 2020c, 2021d). FRA (2019) … women and men in couples with children, highlighting how unpaid care duties remain a major obstacle to women taking on …
… an improvement of just 0.6 points since the 2020 edition and of only 4.9 points in total since 2010. Even that minimal … time is negative in the long term. An enormous increase in unpaid care during the COVID-19 crisis – particularly by … between women and men because of the gender imbalance in paidandunpaidwork. More women than men in the EU have lost …
… Gender inequalities in health The conditions in which women and men live, workand spend their time affect their health. … to accumulate and have the greatest impact on those not in paidworkand those with a low income, such as women with a … isolation, but also the increased and sustained burden of unpaidwork triggered by school closures and movement …
… aspect of gender equality. The amount of time spent in paidwork, rest and recreation, or caring for others has knock-on effects on … a person’s life. This includes their health. The burden of unpaid care is increasingly regarded as a determinant of …
… of economic independence remaining far lower than men’s, and the feminisation of poverty is a serious concern for the … interlinked. Motherhood and the unequal distribution of unpaid childcare between women and men make it harder for women to commit more time to paidwork (EIGE, 2019e). The overall share of women in …
… 2020a). They are reflected in lower levels of employment and higher levels of underemployment for women, as well as in … norms, including leaving jobs or substantially reducing paidwork time to meet care needs. This has consequences for … as never before, the crucial links between paidandunpaidwork, and between the economic and health spheres. …
… Professions and pay The perception that women and men have different … gap , as fields dominated by men tend to be more highly paid than those dominated by women. Even when women are … and informal expectations around who is responsible for unpaid care work . Although around 77 % of men aged 20–49 are …
… linked to beliefs around the fundamental nature of women and men and the roles they should play in society. Sexist … certain sectors of the economy, primarily responsible for unpaid care work, paid less than men and disproportionately subject to …
… long-term care will increase, given the ageing population and increasing life expectancy across the EU (EIGE, 2020e; … of care recipients, but even more for caregivers. Caring (paid or unpaid) for an old person takes a considerable toll on the …
… Despite recent policy actions at EU and Member State levels, the gender pay gap persists. In … underpaid and undervalued. Both women and men are well paid in ICT but the gender pay gap persists Attracting women … The ILO (2018c) study accounts for both the paidandunpaidwork that underpins platform work: searching for …
… use of mobile devices, digitalisation of working processes and online communication allow more flexibility in where and … burden of household work, despite also being in paidwork (see Chapter 5, ‘Domain of time’). The rest of this … by blurred boundaries between leisure time andunpaid care, with phenomena such as contamination (leisure …