… us today. It’s great to be here to speak about EIGE’s work programme in 2022. We have three priority topics for the … first is that we are now even more explicitly aligning our work programme with the political priorities of the European … survey, which asked women and men how much their paid and unpaid hours changed during the pandemic. This will provide …
… Carlien Scheele delivered this speech at the “Remote Work: Challenges, Risks and Opportunities" conference on the … worse, with women putting in even more hours into their unpaid jobs. Online schooling was work mainly done by mothers. When homes become workplaces, unpaidwork also eats into the time you’re trying to reserve …
… pandemic, with 7.7 million women unable to take up paid work because they were taking care of children and ageing parents. Although this unpaid care work doesn’t show up in governments’ balance … the state if not by their families. Globally, the value of unpaid care work has been estimated at around 9 trillion …
… how we can bring more gender equality into the domestic work sector. Let’s start with the obvious. The rights of … were women. Because the official data is clear: domestic work is predominantly done by women. The same is true of unpaid domestic labour, which still falls largely on the …
… in retail, accommodation, residential care, domestic work and clothing manufacturing suffered heavy job losses. … more care responsibilities than before, women’s share of unpaidwork has increased. Online schooling represents a new form of unpaid care for parents, especially for women who are more …
… for Gender Equality (EIGE). Across the EU, the bulk of unpaid care work is done by women, with 92 % providing unpaid care … men. Employed women also do more than their fair share of unpaid care work. Across the EU, they spend 90 minutes more …
… There is a direct link between the unequal division of unpaid care in households and gender inequalities in the labour market. The bulk of unpaid care work is done by women, and this hinders their access to …
… workloads, night shifts and low pay characterise their work. These factors will not attract more people to a sector … the EU. But we must also recognise the value of care work by increasing wages and improving working conditions. … care services mean that women often pick up the burden of unpaid care at home. This limits their career opportunities …
… EIGE is looking into gender inequalities in pay and unpaid care, as requested by the German Presidency of the EU. … for Action. The study will examine how unequal sharing of unpaid care activities at home affects pay inequalities in … at the different ways in which families outsource care work. Recommendations to reduce gender inequalities in unpaid …
… What is work–life balance and why does it matter? Work–life balance is about striking a balance between ‘work’ … everything else – including, but not limited to, unpaidwork, domestic work (cleaning, cooking, …
… that women undertake a disproportionate share of unpaid care work, which limits their participation in the labour market … for women and men in areas such as equal conditions of work, career progression and equal pay. …