… 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. …
… 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, …
… 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 …
… 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. …
… 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 …