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Browse through our EU Care Atlas, a tool developed by the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) to map how care deficits directly relate to inequality and how these deficits urgently call for more supportive and needs-based care measures.
Our interdependent caring relations have become more obvious than ever. However, demographic changes coupled with deep societal transformations, failing to be reflected in today’s welfare systems, pose serious challenges for social cohesion.
Despite its vital contribution to the well-being of people and to the economy, care as a policy domain remains sytematically undervalued and under-addressed. Persisiting patriarchal norms create a female enclave whereby women continue to bear a disproportionate burden of care work. To aim for a more sustainable and care-focused Europe, the EU Care Strategy therefore must contribute to closing the overall gender earnings gaps through transformative measures making care for all people, in all stages of their lives, a central public policy concern.
