care economy

The biggest jobs headline describes a future shortfall. Saransh asks what today’s figures miss about women, challenges the careless use of “Global South”, and examines what employment policy should measure …

Women’s unpaid care load will not disappear through better time management. Real redistribution requires shared responsibility at home, care-friendly workplaces and stronger childcare and care infrastructure.

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.