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Paid Work & Care Work

Unless action is taken to challenge the unequal distribution of care between women and men and improve state provision of care, efforts to enhance women’s economic participation and bring about their empowerment will be persistently undermined. This theme explores the gender dimensions of work, including the gender division of labour, the importance of recognising both women’s paid and unpaid work, informal work, and labour standards and rights.

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Gender and Care Cutting Edge Pack

Providing care can be both a source of fulfilment and a terrible burden. For women and girls in particular, their socially prescribed role as carers can undermine their rights and limit their opportunities, capabilities and choices - posing a fundamental obstacle to gender equality and well-being. How can we move towards a world in which individuals and society recognise and value the importance of different forms of care, but without reinforcing care work as something that only women can or should do?


Documents on Paid Work & Care Work (376)

  1. Life as Commerce: The impact of market-based conservation mechanisms on women

    Author: A. Cardenas, Global Forest Coalition, Jan 2012
    This paper highlights the need to support rural and indigenous women’s highly sustainable methods of using and protecting natural resources. It advocates that women’s knowledge should be developed and adapted ...more

  2. Gender, Employment and the Informal Economy. Glossary of Terms (in English and Arabic)

    International Labour Organization , Jan 2009
    Presented in English and Arabic, the glossary is intended to bring clarity to the terms used around the informal economy in both languages. It was prepared as a compendium to ...more

  3. Making the Strongest Links: A Practical Guide to Mainstreaming Gender Analysis in Value Chain Development

    Author: J. Simpson;G. Mackie, International Labour Organization , Jul 2009
    Most current value chain development has failed to integrate gender analysis despite the gender mainstreaming policies of the donor agencies and the gender commitments of the governments involved. This guide ...more

  4. BRIDGE Report 20: What about women: why we need a gender perspective in development policy

    BRIDGE, Jan 1993
    Since the first UN Decade for Women (1975-85), considerable progress has been made in redressing gender inequalities in developing countries. There is now wider understanding of the importance of gender ...more

  5. Gender, science and technology: Report of the expert group meeting

    United Nations [UN] Commission on the Status of Women ., Jan 2010
    What progress has been made on increasing women’s and girls’ access to and participation in science and technology (S&T)? This report is the outcome of the expert group meeting: Gender, ...more

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