It took us a global pandemic to realise that we depend on care. But despite all the clapping from the balconies, care workers continue to work in precarious and vulnerable conditions. In the EU, carers earn on average 65% of the national average employee income. Who are the ones at the forefront? 70% of health and social carers are WOMEN.

Women suffer from a severe lack of recognition of their paid and unpaid care work. Most care work is not even paid at all. The essential everyday tasks in our homes, performed by an overwhelming majority of women, remain unacknowledged. Our economies, our lives, cannot go on forgetting that paid and unpaid caregivers are the ones that cover our most basic needs. We need to move away from a profit-driven model of growth to a care-driven model.

FEPS, together with its member foundations, has been intensively working since November 2019 to monitor the EU gender equality policy agenda through a progressive lens focusing particularly on its care dimensions.

It’s time for a care revolution! We need to #Care4Care!——————————————————————————————-

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Publications
08/03/2023

The European Care Strategy

A chance to ensure inclusive care for all?
05/12/2022

Towards a care-led recovery for the EU?

Recovery Watch series
23/10/2022

The EU and gender equality

FEPS Primers series - Agnès Hubert
07/09/2022

The structure of care work and inequalities among care workers

Care4Care series
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Events
Past
16/01/2023
Vienna, Austria (Hybrid)

9th Barbara Prammer Symposium 2023

European perspectives for a gender-just welfare policy
21/09/2022
FEPS HQ (Closed-door)

Care4Care lunch seminar

EU Care Strategy: A chance to trigger inclusive care for all?
04/01/2022

Supporting family and care – FEPS-Fabian New Year Conference 2022

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Progressive Post
12/09/2022

Who cares? Why we need a Care Deal for Europe

10/01/2022

Covid-19: exposing the missing link – the migrant health-integration nexus

18/10/2021

Covid-19: donating vaccines is not enough!

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News
03/03/2022

EU Care Atlas: how care deficits impact the gender earnings gap

While the attention is often focused on the gender pay gap (which averages 13% in […]
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In the media

How many inequalities can the world fight at the same time?

by Social Europe 07/07/2022
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Audiovisual

Feminist Framework for the Secretary General’s report “Our Common Agenda”

This interactive panel presented a feminist analysis of the UN Secretary General’s “Our Common Agenda” […]

Primer ‘The EU and gender equality’ by Agnes Hubert

EU Care Atlas

Full screen

#120 FEPS Talks ‘The politics of care’

Care Workers on the Coronavirus Frontline – Sian Stockham, UNISON

#Care4Care

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Director of Studies and Policy
David supervises and coordinates FEPS’ scientific quality and consultancy capacity, ensuring the policy-relevance and impact […]

Laeticia THISSEN

Policy Analyst on Gender Equality
Laeticia Thissen works as a Policy Analyst for Gender Equality at the Foundation for European […]