… in the labour market, including women tending to work fewer hours and in more precarious employment, then … picture, the gender pay gap is aggravated. Due to unshared unpaid care responsibilities, the highest gender pay gap is … jobs; They work more hours, accounting combined paid and unpaidwork; They take longer career breaks often due to care …
… are never in isolation – life just doesn’t work like that. Childcare sits alongside other demands like housework or long-term unpaid care. It all adds up. And if it’s not shared equally, … grocery shopping, the cleaning, the laundry, an important work project, then taking care of home-schooling and then …
… Today, one-in-three people 1 across the EU are unpaid informal carers for family members or friends in need … States need to address the significant gender gaps in unpaid care and provide robust care systems to avoid … not yet seen a meaningful or fairer redistribution of unpaid care duties within EU households. And that needs to …
… gender equality? Director Carlien Scheele discussed EIGE’s work on the effectiveness of the equality bodies for gender … three key gender equality issues we face in 2022, namely work life balance, pay transparency, and violence against … cause gender pay gap. During the pandemic, an increased unpaid care burden combined with women’s greater tendency …
… structural barriers, and societal ideas about what women’s work should look like contributed to pushing 7.7 million … average, women across the EU have carried out 36 hours of unpaidwork a week. This is 2,000 hours a year. 2,000 hours a … or less what you would spend on full time employment. This unpaidwork creates a vicious cycle. It props up so many of …
… put in place pandemic recovery budgets and policies that work for both women and men. As our economies start to … as well as challenges. For instance, in childcare. Unpaid care work in the home really exploded for women during the …
… Gender Equality (EIGE) is proud to help EU Member States work towards. For the last two years, International Women’s … the EU treaties were signed in 1957 are the result of hard work, including laws, campaigns, and individual acts of … EU. And we have pointed out the implications of care and unpaidwork on women’s and men’s lives at Eurofound’s …
… the pandemic, women have been doing about 36 hours of unpaid care work a week. That’s almost 2,000 hours a year, which, to put … give to a full-time job over the course of a year. This unpaid care work that is essential to our economies. The …
… challenges to the spotlight. The importance of care work, whether paid or unpaid, and its unequal distribution between women and men is … 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 … 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 …
… be cared for at some point in our lives. Professional care work is one of the lowest paid occupations in the EU, often … by poor contracts that provide little security. Unpaid care work, the type of work most of us have relied on … really exploded, with online schooling emerging as a new unpaid job predominantly done by women. Men also increased …
… in retail, accommodation, residential care, domestic work and clothing manufacturing suffered heavy job losses, … in life. Across the EU, it is no secret that the bulk of unpaid care work is done by women. Well, women’s care work … the pandemic, with online schooling emerging as a new unpaid job predominantly done by women. Men also increased …
… 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 …