… It looks at gender equality in the EU in six core domains: work, money, knowledge, time, power and health. It finds that … and that greater equality is achieved in both paid and unpaidwork. Workers in the care sector, who are mostly women and …
… 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 …
… 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 …
… We are learning what it means to self-quarantine, work from home, home-school children, lose a job or even a … (35 %) and one in four men (24 %) work in precarious jobs. Unpaid care work will increase Even without a crisis, caring … Now with the closure of schools and workplaces, their unpaid workload is likely to further increase. If older …
… include reducing economic inequalities, creating better work-life balance, combating violence against women, and … challenge that needs tackling is the unequal sharing of unpaid housework and caring responsibilities. This is a major … gender pay gap. On average, women do an extra 13 hours of unpaidwork each week, compared to men. This limits women’s …
… as women continue to be the main providers of care. While unpaid care work is indispensable to the wellbeing of individuals and … same reason, 9 million women, compared to 0.6 million men work part time. More women (19.7 %) than men (14.9 %) provide …
… for Gender Equality (EIGE). “Women are using flexible work arrangements to juggle work and family life but this is rarely the case for men. Our … lower level and lower paid jobs, work more (both paid and unpaid) hours, take longer career breaks, and are more likely …
… by EIGE suggests that, despite improvements in policy, the work-life balance for men and women remains unequal in … individual. More women than men reduce the hours that they work in order to provide informal care. One third of women … the mother returns to work. Paternity leave is a paid or unpaid leave of absence from work granted to a father to care …