SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Goal description
«While the world has achieved progress towards gender equality and women’s empowerment under the Millennium Development Goals (including equal access to primary education between girls and boys), women and girls continue to suffer discrimination and violence in every part of the world. Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world. Providing women and girls with equal access to education, health care, decent work, and representation in political and economic decision-making processes will fuel sustainable economies and benefit societies and humanity at large.»
Swiss target 5.4: The distribution of gainful work and unpaid household and family work between the genders is more balanced. Women and men benefit from the corresponding regulatory framework that favours the reconciliation of private, family and work life as well as the balanced distribution of paid and unpaid housework and family work.
Significance of the indicator
The indicator shows the number of hours spent on professional activity and on domestic and family workload by sex. Total workload is calculated by the number of hours per week. In order to move towards sustainable development, the amount of time spent on professional activity and on domestic work must be more equally divided between the sexes.
Help for interpretation
This indicator gives no information as to individuals’ satisfaction with the division of their time between paid and domestic work. Differences in how time is divided between paid and domestic work are also due to personal choice.
International comparability
This indicator cannot be compared at international level.
Synthesis
Note: calculation of the % difference between men and women of the proportion of hours spent on domestic and family work in total workload. Calculation available from 2010 only, due to a break in the time series.
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Methodology
This indicator shows the average number of hours per week spent on domestic and family work (not including voluntary work) and professional activity for men and women of working age (from 1997 to 2007 working age was between 15 to 64 years for men and 15 and 63 years for women. From 2010 onwards it is 15 to 64 for men and women).
Data are collected and published every 3 to 4 years as part of the Swiss Federal Statistical Office's Swiss Labour Force Survey (SLFS) in the “Unpaid work” module. A revision of the survey in 2010 led to a break in the time series.
Targets
Swiss target 5.4: The distribution of gainful work and unpaid household and family work between the genders is more balanced. Women and men benefit from the corresponding regulatory framework that favours the reconciliation of private, family and work life as well as the balanced distribution of paid and unpaid housework and family work.
International target 5.4: Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate
Contact
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