EU: Women's employment must increase three times faster to meet targets

The report also found that sectors of the economy that are likely to decline in the future are currently dominated by men

Eurofound said there has been little change in the gender employment gap at around 12 percentage points since 2014.

Women’s employment will have to increase at a rate at least three times faster than that of men until the end of the decade in order to meet EU targets, the European Commission has said.     

The new report by the European Commission and Eurofound — the agency responsible for improving living and working conditions across EU states — said the EU targets include an employment rate of 78% and a halving of the gender employment gap.