… economic development, labour market participation, unpaidwork, supporting improved care provision and practices to … the current pay gap, the distribution of paid and unpaidwork and information from time use studies. …
… are more men than women? In EU Member States, both paid work and unpaid care work exists. These different kinds of work are … by both women and men. Consider: How are paid work and unpaid care work divided and distributed between women and …
… Wingender, P., Clements, B., & Schwartz, G. (2013), Women, Work and the Economy: Macroeconomic gains from gender equity, … Equality and Economic Independence: Part-time work and self-employment — Review of the implementation of … Pay Gap: Valuation and Distribution of Paid Work and Unpaid Care Work, Council of Europe, Brussels. Available at: …
… 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, …
… and schools during lockdowns increased women’s share of unpaidwork, despite men sharing the workload more than before. Time … closed across Europe during the lockdowns, a new form of unpaid care emerged. The move to online schooling created yet …
… 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. …
… 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 …
… Women rely more on public infrastructure for work—life balance Access to quality and sustainable public … gender roles assigning women to care work, paid or unpaid, result in women using and contributing to public … cars. At the same time, and given the gendered patterns of unpaid care and paid work division, the availability, …
… of dual-earning and single-headed families as more women work outside of the home and not all families have a mother … to reproductive roles and are solely responsible for unpaid childcare. One consequence of this set-up is women’s … the EU on average spend 20 hours per week more than men on unpaidwork (Eurofound, 2017a). The gender FTE gap (18 p.p. …
… family model, have unsettled traditional gender work roles and expectations (Connolly, Aldrich, O’Brien, … maternity, paternity and parental leaves, both paid and/or unpaid, the parents may have job-protected absence from work … paid at a low flat rate similar to social assistance or be unpaid. No payment requirements are specified in the parental …
… The quest for a work—life balance has become a modern holy grail. The dizzying speed of change in the world of work, propelled by a digital revolution and economic crises, … (Table 1) is based on three broad areas: paid work, unpaidwork (care), and education and training. It presents …
… in a couple with children do at least 1 hour of childcare work per day, this only holds true for 67 % of men. The … explains that while 76 % of lone mothers do childcare work every day, only 38 % of lone fathers do likewise. For … different age groups. The age cohort most likely to do unpaid care work every day is that of 25-49-year-olds, the …