… 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 …
… lead to less social protection, fewer pension entitlements and other social benefits. And women continue to pay the … picture, the gender pay gap is aggravated. Due to unshared unpaid care responsibilities, the highest gender pay gap is … Women are concentrated in lower-level and lower-paid jobs; They work more hours, accounting combined paidand …
… 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 …
… childhood, we need to start by looking at the parents and guardians. What choices do they make? How do current laws … with the birth of each child, shows the impact of this unpaid care work on women’s lives. The best way to … children’s early education, they are some of the lowest paid people in the EU. Improving conditions in this sector …
… COVID-19: mental load, gender equality in teleworking andunpaid care work after the pandemic". Good morning all, Early … we found that 7.7 million women were unable to take up paidwork because they were providing unpaid care at home. …
… 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 …
… There is a direct link between the unequal division of unpaid care in households and gender inequality in the labour market, according to a … for Gender Equality (EIGE). Across the EU, the bulk of unpaid care work is done by women, with 92 % providing …
… gender pay gap reveals the different realities that women and men face in their professional and personal lives. Today, … factors: women are concentrated in lower level and lower paid jobs, work more (both paidandunpaid) hours, take longer career breaks, and are more likely …
… 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 …