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Umeå (Sweden) has calculated that if men used public transport as often as women, they would achieve more significant CO2 reductions than by converting an entire fleet into electric buses. To learn more about gender and mobility, turn to chapter 6D.
EIGE estimates that incorporating a gendered perspective into budgets and analysing public spending for unintentional inequality could lead to an increase in GDP per capita in the European Union of 6.1 to 9.6%, or 1.95 to 3.15 trillion EUR, by 2050. Want to read more about gender budgeting? Check out chapter 3B.
Only four in ten workers in the EU are employed in a gender-balanced sector where the workforce comprises at least 40% of each gender, missing out on potential talent and a fairer local economy. More about labour market segregation in chapter 4C.
According to EIGE, achieving gender-balance in national parliaments in the EU will take another 12 years2. Learn more about what European cities are doing to speed up parity in local representation in chapters 2A and 2B.
In Germany, the gender care gap is 52%. That means that compared to men, women work on average 52% more, and that additional work is unpaid. For heterosexual couples with children, the gap increases to 83%3. And if you look at the differences in caring for children only the gap increases to 108%. Read more about care work and time management in chapter 4E and the role of child care in chapter 5D.
2 EIGE (2019), Achieving gender-balance in national parliaments would take another 12 years , published on 30 May 2019 and available at: https://eige.europa.eu/gender-statistics/dgs/data-talks/achieving-gender-balance-national- parliaments-would-take-another-12-years
3 German Presidency of the Council Working Party on Statistics; and ALLMENDINGER, J. as host (2020), Podcast: Childcare and gender equality in times of the coronavirus pandemic , available at: https://www.destatis.de/EN/eu2020/ digital-conference/childcare-gender-equality/podcast-allmendinger.html
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