Do YOU KNOW that…

…part-time work reduces not only your actual income but also your future opportunities in life?

Women are more likely to be employed in non-standard, temporary and part-time employment. These types of work provide you more flexibility to combine family and working duties but besides a lower pay it also reduces your income, your pay to the pension system and they diminish your access to training opportunities, social protection and other services.

Do you know that…

…women over the age of 65 are vulnerable for being at risk of poverty?

Having a lower employment rate and accumulating less experience and salary in the labour market, your pension rights will be limited at the age of 65. The extent of differences will be determined by your national pension calculation system – if the amount is calculated on several years only or on life span.

Do you know that…

…gender equality in employment has only improved by 2% across Europe in the last years?

Although we might think there is a lot of progress, as in many countries’ enterprises have to declare contracts and incomes to the state, statistics show the contrary. The Gender Pay Gap does not only revolve around earning the same as your male companion in the same job in the same organisation, there are many hidden factors, like unequal payment in between different sectors, jobs given varying importance….

Do you know that…

…women perform an average of 13 hours more unpaid work each week than men?

Women perform an average of 13 hours more unpaid work each week than men, and care and nursing responsibilities keep 7.7 million women out of the labour market? (EIGE 2020) What is the situation in your household, are nursing and household responsibilities divided equally?