Being a parent requires energy, work and money. The figures on part-time work show how this responsibility is unevenly spread between men and women. In Europe, three times more women than men have part-time jobs, and this gap widens worryingly when children arrive. Paradoxically, the number of men in part-time work tends to shrink (albeit only slightly) when they become parents, widening the disparity in pay and family responsibilities.
The figures support our understanding of motherhood as a key factor in pushing women into economic precariousness, due to the uneven distribution of paid work and unpaid household work.
Gender in figures
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Do social inequalities affect health?
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Men’s and women’s education?
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Diversity of origin and migration projects
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Who called it work-life balance?
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How millennials share domestic chores
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Economic independence at risk?
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Gender in ten key economic sectors
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To get married: a personal, political or economic decision?
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Putting off motherhood for a decade
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Balanced representation on local councils?
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The barriers to economic power are still in place
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Living in fear of your partner
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Where did it happen?
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Differences and similarities in day-to-day culture
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Creative women: presence in cultural life
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Men and women in the film industry
Observatori iQ
iQ is a cooperative that seeks to contribute to social innovation in favor of gender equality. The cooperative offers the iQ Observatory, a platform that delivers statistical data on the differences and inequalities between men and women in different areas of everyday life in Catalonia. iQ team is made up of professionals with several profiles and is led by the political scientist Maria de la Fuente.