… in the European Union and shows trends in the domains of work, money, knowledge, time, power, health and violence. … can help both women and men combine private life with paidwork. However, I would like to stress that telework … skills if they want to take advantage of these new, well-paid jobs requiring a high level of digital skills. In the …
… challenges to the spotlight. The importance of care work, whether paid or unpaid, and its unequal distribution between women … Gender Equality Index is on digitalisation, the future of work and most importantly, the consequences for gender …
… Carlien Scheele delivered this speech at the “Remote Work: Challenges, Risks and Opportunities" conference on the … parents, of cooking three meals a day. This work is not paid and you won’t find it in countries’ balance sheets, but … work also eats into the time you’re trying to reserve for paidwork. Our latest findings show that during Covid, …
… in retail, accommodation, residential care, domestic work and clothing manufacturing suffered heavy job losses, … assumption that caring is still women’s work, even when paid, contributes to its undervaluation. When thinking about … skills if they want to take advantage of the new, well-paid jobs becoming available, which require a high level of …
… the pandemic, with 7.7 million women unable to take up paidwork because they were taking care of children and ageing … This can, of course, make it difficult to find time for paidwork -- as was the case for 7.7 million women before the …
… how we can bring more gender equality into the domestic work sector. Let’s start with the obvious. The rights of … will have been the only way you’ve been able to take up paidwork. Because otherwise you would have been doing it … apart. Yet domestic work includes some of the most under-paid and under-valued jobs in the labour market. For example, …
… the gender pay gap, the unequal distribution of unpaid work, and gender-based violence, to name just a few. Some new … women are particularly vulnerable. Women are also paid less because they dominate sectors that are low-paid versions of their domestic caring responsibilities, for …
… COVID-19 pandemic showed that: Due to lockdown measures, paid employment declined, while the amount of unpaid household work and childcare increased significantly. Even though men … during the summer of 2020, women did not return to paid employment to the same extent that men did. This could …
… (Marmot et al., 2012).Employment and higher quality of work are linked to bette r health at individual level … working women and men are more likely than those not in paidwork, the unemployed or retirees to rate their health as good or very good (Figure 25). Lack of paidwork is likely to affect women’s health …