care economy

Women’s programmes have become good at opening doors through education, skilling, entrepreneurship and recruitment. The next challenge is keeping those opportunities viable when unpaid care, transport, health, wages and workplace …

Women’s participation in paid work is increasing, but their unpaid domestic, care and family labour remains largely unrecognised. The economy counts women when they enter payrolls while continuing to depend …

Care work was long treated as a private family duty, performed largely by women and excluded from economic thinking. It is now becoming a global policy, labour and investment priority. …

Singapore’s ten-year women’s-development roadmap contains 25 action plans covering workplace equality, caregiving, health, protection from violence and gender attitudes. Its greatest lesson for India and the wider world is the …

Women are trained for jobs in care, health, beauty, education, retail and customer service. But who trains the organisations employing them? Pink-collar skilling must improve women’s capabilities and the workplaces …

India relies on women to teach children, deliver healthcare, provide care and support essential public services. Yet many jobs associated with women remain poorly paid. The problem is not simply …

Morocco has become the first country in the Arab region and the second in Africa to adopt a national strategy for the care economy, covering unpaid care, care services, decent …

Care work keeps the world running. UN Women’s latest care economy factsheet shows why investing in care systems can create jobs, reduce women’s unpaid workload and strengthen economies.

A new study across 115 developing countries shows that women’s work and fertility decline are connected in some regions but not everywhere. The real question is whether workplaces and societies …

India’s Cash Schemes for Women are often framed as empowerment. This editorial asks a sharper question: are we expanding women’s freedom, or using monthly transfers as a substitute for jobs, …