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Introduction: A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision

31 Aug 2022

13 pages long

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Introduction: A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision

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This is the introduction to the journal issue on 'A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision'.

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COVID-19 – a crisis of care and what we can learn from the SEWA experience in India

31 Aug 2022

17 pages long

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COVID-19 – a crisis of care and what we can learn from the SEWA experience in India

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As women across the globe continue to be overburdened with child-care responsibilities owing to the closure of institutional child-care facilities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper attempts to posit a viable disaster-resilient model through the idea of community-based care infrastructure. Based on research conducted among parents from low-income groups, whose children attended child-care centres […]

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The Care Policy Scorecard: a new tool to shift progress towards a caring economy

31 Aug 2022

19 pages long

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The Care Policy Scorecard: a new tool to shift progress towards a caring economy

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COVID-19 has highlighted the centrality of care and women’s labour (paid and unpaid). While there is a growing body of literature on specific policy measures to address care work in different contexts, there is no global practical tool to track progress against key policy areas. This article introduces the Care Policy Scorecard, an evidence-based policy […]

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COVID-19 and women migrant workers in informal employment: recommendations for strengthening social protection efforts in Lao People’s Democratic Republic

31 Aug 2022

17 pages long

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COVID-19 and women migrant workers in informal employment: recommendations for strengthening social protection efforts in Lao People’s Democratic Republic

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, tens of thousands of migrant workers returned from their countries of employment to their families in Lao People’s Democratic Republic. This article focuses on a specific population of migrant workers – Lao women returnee migrant workers in informal employment in Thailand – to explore how COVID-19 impacted their well-being and […]

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COVID-19 impact and recovery for women informal workers – a view from 2021

31 Aug 2022

29 pages long

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COVID-19 impact and recovery for women informal workers – a view from 2021

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Studies show that the COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictions had disproportionately negative impacts on the majority of the world’s workers who work informally, and on women informal workers in particular. This reflects the interplay between the pandemic, existing decent work deficits in informal employment, and discriminatory gendered norms within and outside the workplace. Based on […]

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The role of care and the local economy in women’s labour force participation: evidence from Mexico and Colombia in the pandemic era

31 Aug 2022

31 pages long

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The role of care and the local economy in women’s labour force participation: evidence from Mexico and Colombia in the pandemic era

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Women face disproportionate care burdens on their time because of traditional gender roles, lack of public policies supporting them and the lack of government services for satisfying society's care needs. This unequal distribution of care responsibilities reduces their opportunities to fully participate in labour markets. We argue that all else equal, women's physical proximity to […]

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From participation to power – Pacific approaches to women’s economic empowerment

31 Aug 2022

24 pages long

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From participation to power – Pacific approaches to women’s economic empowerment

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Pacific women’s unique economic experiences are under-represented in Pacific development initiatives. Economic empowerment initiatives typically focus on economic participation, without consideration for women’s household labour and the unequal social and economic dynamics within their homes and communities. Within the context of COVID-19, these inequalities have become more pronounced and the need to address them more […]

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Women’s voluntary work in the community: a question of recognition and rewards

31 Aug 2022

16 pages long

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Women’s voluntary work in the community: a question of recognition and rewards

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In South Korea, the state has played a minimal role in social provisioning, and as such, care provisions have been dependent on women's unpaid labour. Women's unpaid labour, especially in terms of voluntary activities, has played an important role in the sustenance of the community. However, women's voluntary work is often devalued as a free […]

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Breaking new ground: women’s employment in India’s NREGA, the pandemic lifeline

31 Aug 2022

31 pages long

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Breaking new ground: women’s employment in India’s NREGA, the pandemic lifeline

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India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), in the last 15 years, has evolved as the world’s largest employer of the last resort. This social protection, specifically designed as a demand-driven automatic employment stabiliser to enable households to cope with livelihood shocks, offers 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to all […]

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Grandmother, breadwinner, caregiver, widow, entrepreneur: COVID-19, older women, and challenges for the implementation of the women’s economic empowerment agenda

31 Aug 2022

18 pages long

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Grandmother, breadwinner, caregiver, widow, entrepreneur: COVID-19, older women, and challenges for the implementation of the women’s economic empowerment agenda

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In both academic and practitioner work on women’s work, there is significant focus on women in the 18–55 age bracket. However, there remains a gap in the policy agenda on the impact of COVID-19 on older women in the 55+ age group, including those with disabilities. Christian Aid research and projects that have focused on […]

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