Radar Europe’s all-encompassing approach to work-life balance
Managing societies with aging populations across Europe requires re-thinking both labour needs and labour efficiency. Together with tailored employment policies, policies to support healthy work life balance contribute to economic resilience in healthy and prosperous societies.
Women are still overrepresented in low paid jobs and carry the heaviest weight of unpaid care work all over Europe. The EU estimates the gender employment gap to be nearly 400 billion euros annually.1 The path to fair work-life balance requires tackling the underlying drivers of inequalities including:
Accessibility to labour markets: Women have harder time accessing job markets and advancing careers
Job security: Women are over-represented in precarious work in the service sectors
Balanced parental leave policies: Women are disproportionately affected by care duties of families and the arrival of children continues to create a long-term gender gap in earnings2
Addressing gender-based violence: Harassment and violence at work and at home affect women’s ability to work
Creation of tax incentives: Women earn less than men and tax systems often favour the breadwinners of the families, which reduces incentives to work outside of homes
Radar Europe strive for better understanding of the root causes of labour market inequalities and social polarisation. Our team works on:
Debt relief and management
Analyses on gendered labour and socio-economic conditions
Creating economic opportunities for populations living in poverty, youth, migrants and persons with disabilities.
