Caring for others has no gender. Yet care services are still primarily carried out by women. Whether it's childcare, elderly care, or caring for people with disabilities, around 60% of informal care work is carried out by women. This imbalance is called the gender care gap, and it can affect women’s income, career opportunities, pensions and physical and mental health. But this isn't just a women's issue. The gender gap in unpaid care work costs society an estimated €147–220 billion a year, making it everyone's problem. The European Parliament is working to close this gap by calling for: • Affordable and accessible care services • Fair wages and better working conditions in the care sector • Parental leave and flexible working arrangements • Better protection and recognition of informal carers • Equal participation of men and women in caregiving Read more on Parliament’s work: https://lnkd.in/ew5T_aa5
Nice job! I hope to see similar studies done in following fields: - Waste collection - Sewage cleaning - Coal mining - Oil rig work - Construction labor - Roofing - Logging (lumberjack work) - Commercial fishing - Steel mill work and similar. Let’s discuss the abundance of men working in these fields, and promote more women to these jobs so that the distribution is 50/50. After that we can continue the discussion 🙃
What exactly is meant by equal participation of men and women in caregiving?
There’s no reaction or emoji on LinkedIn that can express how I feel after reading this. I’m genuinely concerned. This has been going on for so long that I’m starting to lose hope :( Keep people in the loop. It's important to notice things... Maybe someday...
Promising careers are being routinely wasted by a lack of basic social protection. In the UK, it is estimated that over a third of women who experienced workplace discrimination or hostility left their employer because of it.
This remains little more than a slogan. What is your practical agenda for addressing the realities faced by care workers—particularly those from migrant communities—who continue to experience multiple layers of systemic racism and inequality?
Ever wondered is it the job or the way the jobs are structured? Women tend to seek to places with very flexible hours and part time. Men not so much.
And I said that it was an example. It is not necessary to repeat the list. I guess that an example is an example from a larger group of cases, items etc. There are too many problems in this world, I agree. Have a great working day.
Elbay Malikmammadov again they are not talking about "underpaid" job. The discussion is about "unpaid" work. The construction work is only an example. Do you know men working for free in the mentioned industries? Not underpaid, but not paid at all. That was the point of the post.
Dissolve the eu asap!
What is conscription service if a not purely unpaid service done by men for the benefit of societies. Unpaid conscription of purely men is today in EU in Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Latvia, and Lithuania. Factor this in when making statistics.