… to COVID-19, but they also experience high levels of work-related stress and emotional exhaustion (Barello et al., … the retail trade, hospitality, residential care, domestic work and clothes manufacturing (EIGE, 2021c). Most of these … 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 …
… migrant women are usually limited to working in low-paid care jobs (Addati, 2018; EIGE, 2020c, 2021d). FRA (2019) … women are considerably less likely than men to be in paidwork, with the gender gap ranging from 19 p.p. in …
… in health The conditions in which women and men live, work and spend their time affect their health. Gender and … to accumulate and have the greatest impact on those not in paidwork and those with a low income, such as women with a low …
… aspect of gender equality. The amount of time spent in paidwork, rest and recreation, or caring for others has knock-on … pandemic, the crisis has underlined the importance of both paid and unpaid care work for societies and economies to …
… and men make it harder for women to commit more time to paidwork (EIGE, 2019e). The overall share of women in part-time work is greater since they balance paid jobs and unpaid care work to a greater extent than men …
… Gender inequalities in the domain of work remain entrenched (EIGE, 2020a). They are reflected in … norms, including leaving jobs or substantially reducing paidwork time to meet care needs. This has consequences for … is exposing, as never before, the crucial links between paid and unpaid work, and between the economic and health …
… of care recipients, but even more for caregivers. Caring (paid or unpaid) for an old person takes a considerable toll … could help to decrease the disproportionate amount of care work for which women are responsible and thereby reduce … most of whom (76 %) are women. They bear heavy workloads, work long shifts (including nights and weekends) and …
… and sectoral segregation, part-time or temporary work, gender stereotypes and norms, difficulties in … underpaid and undervalued. Both women and men are well paid in ICT but the gender pay gap persists Attracting women to well-paid ICT and STEM jobs is seen as an important policy tool to …
… Much of the current policy debate about the future of work centres on the increased use of digital technologies and … 2017, p. 7). This does not, however, mean that women are paid equally to men in these jobs. The fact that women have, … patterns of automation (Rubery, 2018). Firstly, the low-paid nature of certain female-dominated occupations (e.g. …
… digital skills open opportunities for access to well-paid jobs for which there is significant demand in the … skills) necessary to thrive in the digitalised world of work. This is particularly evident among older people (aged … between Gender Equality Index scores (domain of work, subdomain of participation, domain of money) and the …
… several key advances in the digitalisation of the world of work. While these can be understood as a continuation of … contributes to the growth of employment in certain well-paid sectors that require advanced digital skills, such as … linked to digitalisation, one usually offering well-paid, high-quality jobs (the ICT sector) and the other often …