women and care: Increasing burden in all areas
Women in care occupations more common to find are, as men, we are all probably aware of – and is driven most every day. However, even in the nursing home are mostly women, face the challenging task and in the end, you have much to often in the cold.
I have to admit, for a Friday in may, the lures with sunshine into the weekend, the topic today is a little hard to digest. Still, I always wonder why our society is still as strong Role models. Why do mainly women of a profession that is poorly paid, physically strenuous and mentally stressful, and get not even the respect of our society?
The nursing profession is in feminine hands, at least on the Front line. As in other occupational groups, we find, especially in the care of a classic role-schema, and want to give up on our society seemingly only slowly. According to the results of the nursing care statistics of the proportion of women in outpatient care services amounts to around 88 percent, in foster care, approximately 85 percent of homes.
However, this role of schema in the care of not only the nursing professions. Also in the home care, it is largely women who take care of parents or Partner. This role distribution but not in age. The children are still small, it is most likely the woman who takes a career to take care of.
A study by the Institut für demoskopie Allensbach on behalf of the R+V insurance has revealed in 2013 that around 6 million people in Germany care for their relatives at home. Two-thirds of Caregivers are women. Almost 70 percent of women feel comfortable with this task, strong to very strong mentally stressed. Nearly 50 percent feel strongly or very strongly physically burdened.
The care of the relatives takes on a big part of your life, so that the exercise of the profession is hardly possible. As a result, many women do not only Ensure that the burden emotionally as well as physically no longer withstand, but also to the financial future, especially if it is a case for nursing Care.
Care on Hartz IV level
By lower wages, lower income, and occupational limitations due to the care of the children and, later, the parents or the partner, to pay women on average less in pensions and nursing care insurance. On the other hand, women on average live five years longer than men, and themselves are in need of care so that a nursing home is a Must.
The care report of the Barmer GEK is due to these facts, the assumption that women must, on average, raise 45.000 euros of equity capital – in addition to the performance of the legal nursing care insurance in order to obtain, in the case of the case, appropriate care performance. Who is and is not a usable asset or Maintenance to the Partner or children, the device necessarily in the “care case” and is for the social case.
A new framework for domiciliary care and employment
The policy is currently being discussed only about the reconciliation of childcare and employment. What is forgotten here, however, is that the Situation in the old age hardly changes when a family member is to become a nursing case. In an ageing society must therefore be created not only for young families, new conditions and perspectives, but also for the older Generation.
The biggest Problem is here, unfortunately, is still a lack of our society in appreciation for the care both in the home as well as in the profession. If the rethinking of our society does not take place here faster, not uses, ultimately, discussing everything.
At this point it should also be said that the respect for the daily work in care applies to all Workers – men and women!