… Sweden and Belgium more men than women perceive facing work-life tensions nearly every day. If we look at cooking … hand in hand with lower employment opportunities, reduced work hours and lower income. And this cost is much higher for … women than men. For some women, choices and expectations work against each other. I know this because I recently spoke …
… Brussels, EIGE Director Carlien Scheele presented its 2023 work programme, outlining key thematic priorities and … gender-based violence, the Index 2022 ’s thematic focus on unpaid care, the twin green and digital transitions and the … survey on the gendered use of time when it comes to unpaid care and social activities. These findings will be …
… Index domains. A decrease in the score of participation in work indicates that women are increasingly likely to spend … focused on critical aspects related to the time spent on unpaid care. However, the increase was not evenly distributed …
… 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 …
… 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 …
… most gender equal places in the world is a result of hard work. It is the result of laws, of campaigns, of individual … and of so much more. We therefore need to continue our work, as the progress we’ve made can be easily lost. I’d … women across the EU have been doing some 36 hours of unpaid care work each week during the pandemic, which is …
… 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 …
… COVID-19: mental load, gender equality in teleworking and unpaid care work after the pandemic". Good morning all, Early last year, … women across the EU have been doing some 36 hours of unpaid care work each week during the pandemic, which is …
… 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 …
… 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 …
… 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 …
… 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 recent … are also heavily involved in other forms of essential care work, such as informal caring for people with a disability or …
… 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 …
… measures, paid employment declined, while the amount of unpaid household work and childcare increased significantly. Even though men … men. The survey collected data on the thematic areas of unpaid care, paid work, services, support and well-being. 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 …
… 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 …