2021 saw over 2 mln additional women in employment in the EU

Eurofound’s new publication Recovery from COVID-19: The changing structure of employment in the EU shows that European labor markets recovered strongly from COVID-19, before the onset of the disruptions from Russia's invasion of Ukraine and related cost-of-living increases. The report summarises labor market developments in 2020 and 2021 using quarterly data from the EU Labour Force Survey, presenting information from a structural perspective, with a focus on sector-level and occupation-level data, and key demographic variables: gender and age.

The report highlights that, although women overall benefitted more from the recovery in employment compared to men, increased employment for women was not observed evenly across wage levels: increases in well-paid employment have been greater among women than men in the EU, while at the same time job loss has been most acute for women in low-paid jobs.

(WBJ)