Despite progress: women cook and clean more Israel today

Among 36% of married couples, both spouses handle financial matters, in 45% of men, the man handles • more women were taken to the hospital compared to men in the corona crisis • full donors

• Women are more involved in housework

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Ahead of International Women's Day, which will take place tomorrow (Monday), a report was published according to which 4,677,700 women lived in Israel at the end of 2020, of whom about 27% were aged 14-0, about 60% were aged 64-15 and about 13% were aged 65 and over. Collects data on the occasion of International Women's Day 2021.

At the same time, among married couples, most of the housework such as washing, cleaning and cooking, are mostly done by the women.

For example, in 56% of married people, the woman cleans the house, and in only 4%, the man does the work.

In 30% of married couples, both spouses participate in house cleaning.

Among 66% of the married, the woman cooks and prepares the food, and 6% of the married - the man.

Among 25% of married people, both spouses cook.

In 69% of married couples with children up to the age of 13, both spouses share in their care.

In 28% the woman alone bears the burden, and in 1% - the man only.

Among 36% of those married, both spouses handle financial matters, 45% of men are men and 18% of women are women.

Despite the gender gaps in the division of roles at home, there seems to have been a change in the last decade: men without their wives are more involved in laundry, 6.3% in 2019 compared to 5.1% in 2009, cooking and food preparation, 6.2% compared to 4.6%, respectively.

Even when buying food products, buying non-food products and handling financial matters, men are more involved today than a decade ago.

Women are the majority in academia 

As for health, life expectancy in Israel in 2019 was 84.7 years among women, 0.1 years less than in 2018 and 81.0 years among men, 0.1 years more than in 2018. From 2009 to 2019, life expectancy increased by 1.4 years among both women and men Life expectancy at age 65 in 2019 was 22.2 years among women and 19.9 years among men.

The healthy life years expected from birth were in 2019 - 65.8 years, for both women and men, a small decrease in both sexes and especially in women compared to 2018. That is, women are expected to live 77.4% of their lives without a health problem interfering with their functioning, and men 81.0% of their years.

In the field of education, positive findings emerge: among twelfth-grade students, the rate of eligibility for a matriculation certificate among girls is higher than the rate among boys - 71.1% compared with 60.2% in 2019, respectively.

In the 2017/18 school year, the proportion of women among all pre-academic preparatory students was 45.7%.

53.1% of the women who graduated from high school in 2009/10 continued their undergraduate studies within 8 years, compared with only 34.6% of the men.

In 2019/20), 327.3 thousand male and female students studied in Israel, of whom 193.4 thousand were women, ie 59.1%.

For comparison, in 1969/70 women accounted for less than half of all students, ie 43.3%. In the years 2019-2014, an average of 1,090 Israeli and foreign postgraduate researchers participated each year in postdoctoral research.

More women were taken to the hospital

In 2020, the percentage of unemployed women in the labor force reached 4.1% compared to 4.5% among men.

The labor force participation rate of women aged 15 and over reached 58.2 percent, compared with 65.5 percent among men.

Since the outbreak of the Corona virus crisis, the average labor force percentage for March-December 2020 of unemployed and unemployed women who were temporarily absent from work all week for reasons related to the Corona virus has been 17.1% of the labor force, compared to 14.8% among men.

About 7,000 women gave up looking for work in 2020 compared to about 10,000 men.

42.1% of all despairers were women.

90.7% of the employed women were employed, compared with 84.6% among the men.

It also shows that the number of tenants who receive their wages through manpower companies, including non-subcontracting manpower contractors, has reached 9.8 thousand, and the number of hired men - 7.7 thousand.

The share of women in all employees receiving their wages through staffing companies reached 55.9%.

For comparison, the share of rents out of all employees was 49.9%.

In 2020, there were 167,000 self-employed women in Israel, which is 8.9% of all employed women.

Among mothers, the percentage of self-employed women among all employed mothers is slightly higher at 10.3%.

The share of women employed among employed persons with an academic occupation reached 56.3%.

The share of principals out of all principals that year reached 28.0%.

In the high-tech field, about 125,000 women worked in 2020, compared with about 235,000 men.

Women were 34.8% of all employed in this field.

Examination of the occupations at a more detailed level shows that more than a third of the women were employed in traditional female occupations: housekeeping nurses, certified nurses, teacher assistants, social workers and social and welfare consultants, accountants, secretaries, office managers, general clerks, cashiers And ticket sellers, elementary school teachers, childminders, special education teachers and early childhood educators.

In the vast majority of these occupations, women were more than 80% of those employed in the occupation.