… see gender balance for another 125 years. Quotas clearly work. But for some reason, they still make people uneasy. … progression. And even when women are able to return to work after having children, even when they have managed to … some 7.7 million women in the EU are kept out of paidwork because they are providing care. To put that into …
… 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 …
… 1957, we’ve been signed up to the principle that equal work of equal value should be paid the same, regardless of who’s doing it. And yet, women are still paid on average 14 % less per hour than men. At the European …
… 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 …
… The working environment for those in paid jobs often causes chronic stress and may lead to burnout … labour market, women’s over-representation in precarious work and the continued difficult articulation between paid and unpaid work, work-related stressors are likely to …
… (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 …
… and those whose physical presence is still required at work (EIGE, 2021c). Most governments in the EU established … are disproportionately exposed to infection risk at work. Also at increased risk are those working longer hours, … have faced acute tensions from balancing the demands of paid and unpaid work when support services and social …