… and those whose physical presence is still required at work (EIGE, 2021c). Most governments in the EU established … could be due both to social isolation and to the increased unpaid workload from school closures or movement restrictions … acute tensions from balancing the demands of paid and unpaidwork when support services and social networks have …
… has led to acute trade-offs in dividing time between paid work, care duties and leisure activities (EIGE, 2021c). With … of home schooling as a new and additional form of unpaidwork for parents (see Chapter 4) affected families … (Eurofound, 2021b). As a result, spending more time on unpaid care duties has caused acute work–life tensions for …
… 2020g). Women were already more likely than men to be in unpaid, low-paid or temporary jobs. The COVID-19 crisis is … scheme was not available in the sectors of their work or, if it was, provided lower benefits, or because they … (FRA, 2020c). Roma women are also more likely to perform unpaid care work, leading to an employment gap of 18 p.p. …
… to COVID-19, but they also experience high levels of work-related stress and emotional exhaustion (Barello et al., … the retail trade, hospitality, residential care, domestic work and clothes manufacturing (EIGE, 2021c). Most of these … but which have become more challenging because of ongoing unpaid care duties during COVID-19 restrictions (Klatzer and …
… women are considerably less likely than men to be in paid work, with the gender gap ranging from 19 p.p. in France to … women and men in couples with children, highlighting how unpaid care duties remain a major obstacle to women taking on … The COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated the situation. Despite unpaid care acting as a major buffer in managing the spread …
… track progress in this area, particularly on monitoring unpaidwork. EIGE will fill the gap in the near future by collecting EU-wide data on time spent on unpaid care and social activities by women and men. The …
… time is negative in the long term. An enormous increase in unpaid care during the COVID-19 crisis – particularly by … progress or even regression is probable. Domain of work With a score of 71.6 points – an increase of only … percentage points (p.p.), is between women and men taking unpaid care of children, followed by a 21 p.p. gap between …
… in health The conditions in which women and men live, work and spend their time affect their health. Gender and … and have the greatest impact on those not in paid work and those with a low income, such as women with a low … isolation, but also the increased and sustained burden of unpaidwork triggered by school closures and movement …
… the role of social constructs, including masculinity and work–family roles. The focus also touches upon other broad … conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, with these shaped by the global, national and … inequalities in relation to these dimensions. Time use and unpaid care work, as measured by the domain of time, and …