… 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 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 …
… 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 …
… COVID-19 pandemic showed that: Due to lockdown measures, paid employment declined, while the amount of unpaid household workand childcare increased significantly. Even though men …
… 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 …