Time to Care: Unpaid and underpaid care work and the global inequality crisis

Coffey, Clare; Revollo, Patricia Espinoza; Harvey, Rowan; Lawson, Max; Butt, Anam Parvez; Piaget, Kim; Sarosi, Diana; Thekkudan, Julie

doi:10.21201/2020.5419

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“…The chores that fall into the category of unpaid labour are physically exerting and time consuming. As such, the unpaid work of women takes away most of their time and subjects women to time poverty, leaving little or no time for them to engage in productive activities like education and paid employment [17,18,19]. In India, women's labour force participation is dismal and has been showing a declining trend for more than a decade.…”

Section: Implications Of Burden Of Unpaid Work On Womenmentioning

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Gendering COVID-19: Impact of the Pandemic on Women's Burden of Unpaid Work in India

Chauhan

2020

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The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the already existing gender inequalities with substantial implications on women. With the closure of offices and educational institutions, and the emerging norm of work from home and online education, along with the lack of services of domestic worker, the need to perform unpaid chores in the household has increased. Simultaneously, the requirements of social distancing and sanitization have created new unpaid chores. Owing to the sexual division of labour, and gendered roles and social norms of performing domestic and care work, the burden of unpaid work falls disproportionately on women. In this context, the objective of the paper is to study the impact of COVID-19 on time spent on unpaid work and the underlying gender differences in the urban centres in India. Specifically, the paper will do a comparative analysis of the gender differences in time spent on unpaid work before and during the lockdown, and analyse the reasons for the same.

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Section: Implications Of Burden Of Unpaid Work On Womenmentioning

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Gendering COVID-19: Impact of the Pandemic on Women's Burden of Unpaid Work in India

Chauhan

2020

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“…The increasing participation of women in the workforce is primarily seen as a chance for economic growth, with societal benefits overlooked. We do not support a vision that values people only in terms of what those in paid jobs add to the economy in measurable terms while ignoring the economic and social benefits of unpaid and underpaid work, often seen as primary responsibility of women (Coffey et al, 2020).…”

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Global Megatrends: Mapping the forces that affect us all

Artuso¹,

Guijt²

2020

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“…Generally, men have 1 to almost 4 hours more paid work in total hours of labor, while women do at least 2-5 hours of unpaid work. A report from Oxfam estimated the global value of women's unpaid care work, aged 15 and above, to be more than $10.9 trillion (Coffey et al 2020).…”

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COVID-19 is No Excuse to Regress on Gender Equality

Park¹,

Inocencio²

2020

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Given the significant gendered effects of COVID-19, governments need to adopt the following specific actions: • Enhance social services and health protection. • Provide conditional or unconditional cash transfers and food assistance. • Provide targeted support for the most marginalized girls and boys. • Create gender-responsive education. • Address different forms of gender-based violence. • Narrow gender gaps through skills development and job creation. • Pursue gender-responsive labor market policies. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis threatens to reverse hard-won gains in gender equality, further exposing women's vulnerabilities based on their precrisis social, economic, and political situations. Understanding the gendered impact of the COVID-19 pandemic can guide policy makers as they pursue gender-responsive policy making and budgeting. This can ensure a response mindful of the needs of women and girls that addresses existing and emerging gender inequalities and challenges. In this context, this policy brief provides a set of recommendations for gender-responsive policies and sector-specific strategies in response to the pandemic. ThE UNEVEN ImPaCT Of COVID-19 ON WOmEN'S LIVES aND LIVELIhOODS Cases of COVID-19 are still rising globally, with nearly 46 million cases and 1.2 million deaths as of 1 November 2020. 2 COVID-19 affects men and women differently in several ways. Early data across several countries show that men tend to be more susceptible than women, and older people more susceptible to the disease regardless of gender (Mueller, McNamara, and Sinclair 2020). Figure 1 shows that the number of cases is higher for men than women, except for those aged 85 and up. Interestingly, however, survey data from eight Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries from March and April 2020 showed that men were less likely to view COVID-19 as serious, and consequently less likely to agree with public policy measures such as closing schools and nonessential businesses, and less likely to follow social distancing rules (Galasso et al. 2020). 3 1 The authors would like to thank Tsolmon Begzsuren, Samantha Hung, Keiko Nowacka, and Yasuyuki Sawada for their review and very useful and valuable comments on various technical issues examined in this paper.

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Time to Care: Unpaid and underpaid care work and the global inequality crisis

Abstract: in its production. The paper is part of a series written to inform public debate on development and humanitarian policy issues.

Cited by 133 publications

References 2 publications

Gendering COVID-19: Impact of the Pandemic on Women's Burden of Unpaid Work in India

Gendering COVID-19: Impact of the Pandemic on Women's Burden of Unpaid Work in India

Global Megatrends: Mapping the forces that affect us all

COVID-19 is No Excuse to Regress on Gender Equality

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