The 2019 Facts & Figures brochure from the Gender Equality Division of the Basel-Stadt Presidential Department arrived in my mailbox recently. I started leafing through it and ultimately realized that the differences between women and men have indeed improved, but are still high. With regard to senior women and [...]

Somewhere, I can't remember when, I stumbled across the following statement: "Care work: 61% women and 39% men do care work. A total of 9.02 billion hours are performed annually. This is equivalent to 408 billion Swiss francs! Only 7.9 billion hours are spent on paid work." While researching this statement, I came across a publication by the [...]