… economic development, labour market participation, unpaid work, supporting improved care provision and practices to improve work-life balance for both women and men. Interventions … development, the current pay gap, the distribution of paid and unpaid work and information from time use studies. …
… Greater autonomy in setting work-time schedules — for some The average weekly working … FWAs (Eurobarometer, 2018), greater attention must be paid to general availability as well as to barriers to … FWAs on how women and men allocate their time for home and paidwork activities, as well as for their education and …
… Women rely more on public infrastructure for work—life balance Access to quality and sustainable public … out-of-home activities, care responsibilities and paidwork underscores the critical role of public … opportunities for women and men and in balancing paidwork with other life duties and needs. Traditional …
… of dual-earning and single-headed families as more women work outside of the home and not all families have a mother … performed for free within the family to the formal and paid childcare sector (Esping-Andersen, 1990; Orloff, 1996). … distinct gender roles, with men associated with full-time paidwork outside the home. Women are assigned to …
… Union, 2014). LTC can be performed either formally by paid professionals or informally by family members, … just 5 % of inactive men in the same age group, is not in paidwork due to family and/or care responsibilities [3] . …
… family model, have unsettled traditional gender work roles and expectations (Connolly, Aldrich, O’Brien, … available maternity, paternity and parental leaves, both paid and/or unpaid, the parents may have job-protected … Member States over 9 months of childcare leave are well paid, i.e. at least 66 % of previous monthly pay (e.g. BG, …
… effectiveness, not least because of barriers to accessing work and earning a decent income. The risk of poverty rises … to access the labour market or tend to work in low-paid, unstable jobs (Institute of Development Studies, 2016), … trend in Europe for domestic work (often irregular, low-paid, dead-end jobs increasingly carried out by migrant …
… employment lead to much lower participation by women in paidwork. The gender gaps in FTE employment rates were as high as … engaged in the informal economy, such as in informal care work that usually entails poor working conditions and low pay …
… in the labour market. As women spend less time in paidwork than men, they are also more likely to worry that their … over-represented in education, human health and social work, but their employment in these sectors also increased by …
… The Index measures gender equalities in the domains of work, money, knowledge, time, power, health and violence, as … Index. The special focus for this, the 2019 edition, is on work—life balance, an issue of high EU political importance. … of work—life balance cuts across three broad areas: paidwork, unpaid work (care), and education and training. It …
… others, it implies the negotiation of boundaries between paid and unpaid work (Hochschild, 1997), as well as the negotiation of the … care work (mostly unpaid) is associated with women, and paidwork with men. As a result, the unequal distribution of …
… two indicators. These are mean monthly earnings from work and mean equivalised net income. This latter indicator … benefits and any other source in addition to earnings from paidwork. Both indicators are expressed in the purchasing power …
… primary considerations in the debate over the future of work (European Commission, 2019). With paidwork being the main source of income for most families … inequalities concerning the quality and accessibility of paidwork. Gender segregation in the labour market is …
… employer’ awards. In some cases, the decision to improve work-life balance and initiate gender mainstreaming came from … employees’ needs is the first step in designing successful work-life balance measures. This can be done via a survey, … and retention of women, flexible and remote working, and paid paternity leave. Men are also encouraged to share home …