As we celebrate National Women's Month, it is important to recognize the unpaid care work performed by women worldwide. This article highlights the significance of care work and its impact on women's time poverty and the economy.
Happy National Women’s Month! As we celebrate the achievements and highlight challenges facing women across the globe this March, I would like to shine a light on a topic that is often overlooked but underpins our entire economy and society. This is an issue that is personal to me – as a gender equality advocate, as an ambassador, as a mother to four sons. Now is the time to care about care work .
Care work includes looking after children, the elderly or family members with disability, as well as daily domestic work like cooking, cleaning and washing. Care work is ubiquitous, yet it continues to go unrecognized. In my view, there are good reasons why this issue merits greater attention. First, women and girls bear the brunt of care work across the world. This work has been largely unpaid and statistically invisible. Today, unpaid care work is excluded from Gross Domestic Product (GDP) calculations. To put this in perspective, women perform 75 percent of all unpaid care work, conservatively valued at 13 percent of global GDP. In the Philippines, the values are more staggering. Prior to the pandemic, a 2019 Philippine Institute for Development Studies report estimated that women’s unpaid care work accounted for nearly P2 trillion, or 20 percent of the country’s GDP. Consequently, unpaid care work exacerbates women’s time povert
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