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Care work is essential for the functioning of our communities and economies. However, it is marked by racial, gender, class and geographic inequalities.
The state must provide more extensive care services and men and women must share household chores more equitably.
Let’s put care work at the center of society and economy. Let’s value it!
The recognition, reduction, and redistribution of unpaid care work. National policies to
address the imbalance in unpaid care work hours across genders, including provision
of quality, affordable childcare and eldercare that offers labor rights and a living wage
to caregivers and paid family and parental leave for all diverse forms of family.
In addition to encouraging more equity in household and caregiving obligations and allowing women to participate more fully in the workforce, national policies should aggressively address and try to eliminate the gender discrepancy in unpaid work hours. This strategy improves social cohesion and total economic output in addition to promoting gender equality.
