… persist in the EU. Women are less likely to be in paidwork than men, with 67 % of working age women in employment, … number of women may find themselves unable to take up paidwork. Currently, this employment loss costs the EU …
… 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 …
… 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 …
… important matter of care and who takes on this essential work, whether it’s paid or unpaid has also received a lot more attention in … are also heavily involved in other forms of essential care work, such as informal caring for people with a disability or …
… 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, …
… be cared for at some point in our lives. Professional care work is one of the lowest paid occupations in the EU, often accompanied by poor … and of the pandemic, care workers are some of the lowest paid people in the EU. Their low salaries are a reflection of …
… 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 …
… ways. How common was burn out among parents combining paidwork, online home-schooling and household chores? What about … and men and levels of achievement in six core domains: work, money, knowledge, time, power and health, and their …
… There is a direct link between the unequal division of unpaid care in households and gender inequality in the labour … Equality (EIGE). Across the EU, the bulk of unpaid care work is done by women, with 92 % providing unpaid care several days a week – as opposed to 68 % of men. …
… women continue to be under-represented in senior roles, paid less than men and disproportionately subject to sexual … underpins the unequal way women and men are treated at work. While overt sexism is prohibited under EU law, many … value of gender equality. Further reading Sexism at work: How can we stop it? Handbook for the EU institutions …
… We are learning what it means to self-quarantine, work from home, home-school children, lose a job or even a … their profession is one of the most undervalued, and under-paid jobs in the EU. Men’s mortality rate is higher … often already in precarious jobs and will probably not be paid nor entitled to paid sick leave. These people are likely …
… pay gap is that, on average, women spend fewer hours in paidwork than men. This is the situation in all Member States, … working in companies with 10 or more employees are paid less than men in all Member States. Women managers in …
… for Gender Equality (EIGE). “Women are using flexible work arrangements to juggle work and family life but this is … factors: women are concentrated in lower level and lower paid jobs, work more (both paid and unpaid) hours, take longer career breaks, and are …