childcare

A new research review and conversations with women in Ludhiana examine what it takes to keep earning when health, childcare and household responsibilities meet at work.

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.

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. …

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.