Flash Eurobarometer 371 (Women in the EU)

Women in the EU.<br>Topics: areas most impacted by the crisis: pay gap between women and men and career development, people working in jobs that do not correspond to their level of qualification, later entrance of young graduates into the job market, increase in informal and undeclared work, increase in insecure work, increase in part-time work, difficulty of reconciling private and working lives; most important gender inequalities; most worsened gender inequalities due to the crisis; aspects of higher importance with regard to employers recruiting a woman compared to a man and vice versa: level of qualifications, professional experience, language skills, computer skills, ability to adapt, ability to be mobile, flexibility in terms of working hours, physical appearance, children, age, other, no difference; assessment of the effectiveness of each of the following measures to get more people into work or to enable them to stay in work until later in life: increase the availability of childcare facilities, increase the affordability of childcare facilities, make it easier for people to work abroad, support people who want to start their own business, promote regular training for people at work; most important areas with regard to the crisis; preferred inequality to be tackled as a priority in the electoral programmes of the candidates for the next European elections: persistence of sexist stereotypes, pay gap between women and men, unequal sharing of responsibilities and tasks in families, small proportion of women in positions of responsibility in companies, small proportion of women in positions of responsibility in politics, violence against women, trafficking in women and prostitution, stronger difficulties for women in reconciling their private and working lives.

Demography: age; sex; nationality; age at end of education; occupation; professional position; type of community; own a mobile phone and fixed (landline) phone; household composition and household size; region.

Additionally coded was: respondent ID; country; type of phone line; nation group; weighting factor.