Gender inequalities in care and consequences for the labour market
- Creator
- Mollard, Blandine
- Caisl, Jakub
- Barbieri, Davide
- [et al.]
Gender inequalities in care and consequences for the labour market
This report consists of four chapters. The first illustrates the extent of gender inequalities in care and in pay in the EU and the linkages between the two. The second chapter reviews the two main policy approaches to tackling these inequal ities, which address equal sharing of care (among women and men within a household) and care externalisation (outsourcing care tasks to exter nal providers). The third chapter focuses mainly on externalisation as the predominantly adopted solution in the EU and illustrates the historical evolution of intra-household care arrangements, as well as families’ reasons for outsourcing care tasks to external service providers. The fourth chapter analyses the implications of externalisation, including care workers’ dire employment conditions and the role of COVID-19 in exposing the fragilities of the underfunded care sector. Finally, the report provides a range of policy recommendations for achieving greater equality in
the areas of unpaid care and paid employment, at both Member State and EU level.
- Creator
- Mollard, Blandine
- Caisl, Jakub
- Barbieri, Davide
- [et al.]