Gender equality in Europe is still a long way off

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A new report shows that progress towards gender equality in Europe is happening “at a snail’s pace”

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ELIZABETH ANDREWS, a Welsh political activist of the early 20th century, was a champion of working-class women in the coal-mining valleys of South Wales, campaigning for better health services, housing and childcare. In 1957, after decades fighting for women’s rights, she published a collection of autobiographical essays entitled “A Woman’s Work is Never Done”.by the European Institute for Gender Equality , an EU agency, progress towards gender equality is happening “at a snail’s pace”.

Most of these gains, modest as they are, have occurred in the “power” domain , not least in the halls of government and boardrooms of big firms. Today women hold nearly a third of seats in EU national parliaments and almost a third of cabinet posts . Roughly a third of the board seats at big public firms are held by women, too, thanks in part to gender quotas . At the EU level, institutions in Brussels have helped to increase the representation of women in top government jobs.

In other areas, progress has been even slower. In the “work” domain, although the gap between male and female employment rates in the EU has narrowed, labour markets remain highly segregated. Around 30% of employed women work in education, health and social work, all of which are relatively poorly paid, compared with just 8% of men.

Other gender imbalances are harder to measure. The EIGE compiled several indicators of violence against women in the EU, but excluded them from its main index out of concern that the data were not reliable or comparable across countries. Indeed, domestic violence is universally under-reported, even in normal times. By forcing families to stay at home, lockdowns imposed as a result of the pandemic have only made matters worse.

Despite the progress since the Gender Equality Index was launched a decade ago, Andrews would doubtless say that there is much still to do. And this year, because of the pandemic, women’s lot has probably got worse. The report notes that school closures intended to slow the spread of covid-19 have increased the pressure on women to juggle work and family.

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