This report examines the gender pattern of differences and similarities in working conditions in Europe, drawing on the findings of the Foundation’s Third European Survey on Working Conditions 2000. It examines the reasons for the persistence of gender segregation and sets out policy recommendations for action. It also considers whether the established indicators of working conditions need to be revised to make them more ‘gender-sensitive’ to particular issues primarily associated with women’s jobs, women’s experiences in the workplace, or workload issues within households.
'In 2015, the sixth EWCS interviewed almost 44,000 workers (both employees and self-employed people) in 35 European countries: the 28 EU Member States, the five EU candidate countries, and Norway and Switzerland. Workers were asked a range of questions concerning employment status, work organisation, learning and training, working time duration and organisation, physical and psychosocial risk factors, health and safety, work–life balance, worker participation, earnings and financial security, as well as work and health.'