… interlinked. Motherhood and the unequal distribution of unpaid childcare between women and men make it harder for women to commit more time to paid work (EIGE, 2019e). The overall share of women in part-time work is greater since they balance paid jobs and unpaid care work to a greater extent than men (see Chapter 2, …
… 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 …
… There is a direct link between the unequal division of unpaid care in households and gender inequalities in the labour market. The bulk of unpaid care work is done by women, and this hinders their access to …
… recipients, but even more for caregivers. Caring (paid or unpaid) for an old person takes a considerable toll on the … their professional career to reinvent themselves as unpaid caregivers when a member of the family needs … could help to decrease the disproportionate amount of care work for which women are responsible and thereby reduce …
… and sectoral segregation, part-time or temporary work, gender stereotypes and norms, difficulties in … The ILO (2018c) study accounts for both the paid and unpaidwork that underpins platform work: searching for tasks, taking unpaid qualification tests, researching clients to mitigate …
… two closely related processes: increased flexibility of work and the emergence of new forms of work. Increases in … is often the only option for people to combine substantial unpaid care responsibilities (primarily taken on by women) … reduce gender inequalities in the distribution of unpaidwork (and thus contribute to gender equality in the …
… Apart from its potential to replace human work, digitalisation offers a range of new opportunities, … suggests that there is considerable demand for outsourcing unpaid domestic work via platforms. This could support the … market is held back by their disproportionate share of unpaidwork may decide to outsource this work, often to …