30.06.2022

18% OF UNEMPLOYED WOMEN IN BULGARIA HAVE NOT LOOKED FOR WORK AT ALL IN 2021

The proportion of women aged 25-54 in the European Union who did not look for work at all, compared to all unemployed women, was higher (18.5 percent) than that of men (8.2 percent) in the same age group in 2021, informs Eurostat.

The EU's statistical office reports a significant difference in the reasons why unemployed women and men between the ages of 25 and 54 did not look for work.

The share of women who did not try to find a job due to the need to care for a loved one (5.7 percent) or for other family reasons (2.9 percent) was significantly higher than that of men. A total of 0.5 percent of them did not look for work in 2021 due to the above reasons.

In half of the EU countries, the proportion of women between the ages of 25 and 54 who emphasized the need to care for a loved one was over 5% of all unemployed women who did not look for work at all. The largest number of these women was in 2021 in the Czech Republic (12.8 percent). Romania (11.0 percent) and Ireland (8.2 percent) follow. The EU countries with the fewest unemployed women who did not look for work due to the need to care for a loved one were Denmark (0.9 percent), Sweden (1.5 percent) and Slovenia (1.8 percent).

In Bulgaria, the share of these women in 2021 was 5.4 percent. Ladies between the ages of 25 and 54 who did not look for work at all accounted for 18.8 percent of all unemployed women. For men, this percentage was 11.2.

In only one EU country, the total proportion of men who did not try to find a job because of the need to care for a loved one or for other family reasons was over 1 percent - Ireland (1.1 percent). In Bulgaria, these men were 1 percent of the unemployed gentlemen between the ages of 25 and 54 who did not look for work at all.