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There is a need to place it at the core of all policy decisions and investments in development work, as well as across institutions. The Care-Responsiveness Barometer has been developed as a guiding tool for all institutions to plan, measure and improve […] View resource Journal article Caregivers at the frontline of addressing the climate crisis 10/12/2020 19 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Care work Climate Pakistan Water WE-Care Overview This article draws on Oxfam’s work in Pakistan. It explores the burdens of addressing the climate crisis on the unpaid labour of poverty-stricken women in Badin, Pakistan. A case study methodology has been used to highlight the experiences of four women farmers in Badin and understand the impact of climate change on their care workload. […] View resource Briefing paper Care in the Time of Coronavirus: Why care work needs to be at the centre of a post-COVID-19 feminist future 25/06/2020 7 documents 30 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Care work Coronavirus Gender inequality Women's economic empowerment Overview New research by Oxfam and partners reveals that while COVID-19 and the related containment efforts have caused increases in women’s – and men’s – unpaid care workloads, women are still doing the bulk of this work. Women living in poverty, single mothers and essential workers as well as those belonging to minority racial and ethnic […] View resource Briefing paper Make Care Count: Unpaid and Underpaid Care Work Across Britain 28/04/2020 2 documents 38 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Britain Care Care work gender Poverty Underpaid care United Kingdom Unpaid care Well-being Overview This report focuses on the link between undervalued care work and poverty in Britain by putting the voices and lived experiences of those who do care work at the forefront. Care work, both paid and unpaid, is a vital social good and an essential human right. Despite its necessity and contribution, in Britain and globally, […] View resource Journal article Overcoming the ‘tyranny of the urgent’: integrating gender into disease outbreak preparedness and response 11/07/2019 14 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Care work Crisis response Disease outbreak Ebola Epidemic gender health Policy Overview This article contributes to discussions on the gender dimensions of disease outbreaks, and preparedness policies and responses, by providing a multi-level analysis of gender-related gaps, particularly illustrating how the failure to challenge gender assumptions and incorporate gender as a priority at the global level has national and local impacts. The implications of neglecting gender dynamics, […] View resource Journal article Unintended complicities: preventing violence against women in South Africa 20/07/2016 15 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Care work Funding of services GaD Gender and Development Journal Gender-based violence Post-rape services Prevention of violence against women and girls/gender-based violence Thuthuzela Care Centre Overview This article considers how the prevention of violence against women and girls (VAWG) is inadvertently being caught up in broader economic policies aimed at the cut-back of services, with the basis for this argument provided by a detailed case study of funding to organisations providing post-rape care services in South Africa. To contextualise current circumstances, […] View resource Guidelines and toolkits Redistributing Care Work for Gender Equality and Justice: A training curriculum 15/06/2015 1 documents 80 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Care work Gender inequality Inequality Unpaid care Wellbeing Overview People contribute to the economy through their work in many different ways. Women and men contribute to the productive economy by producing goods and services that people use every day. It is this work that is counted and measured by governments. Yet the work of social reproduction ‘ which refers to the activities needed to […] View resource Guidelines and toolkits Oxfam’s WE-Care Initiative: An overview 20/05/2015 1 documents 12 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Care work Gender mainstreaming Unpaid care Unpaid work WEL Welfare Wellbeing Women's Economic Leadership Overview This interactive PDF offers a brief overview of Oxfam’s WE-Care initiative. This is a three-year initiative (2014–2017) to address the heavy and unequal responsibilities for care and housework and to improve outcomes for women across Oxfam’s programmes: food security, markets, resilience, political participation and post-disaster recovery. WE-Care activities are embedded within existing Oxfam programmes in […] View resource Journal article What does care have to do with human rights? Analysing the impact on women’s rights and gender equality 10/11/2014 16 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Care work GaD Gender and Development Journal Gender equality Gender mainstreaming Human rights Law Policy Poverty Unpaid care Overview Unpaid care work is a critical human rights issue, as well as a major obstacle to gender equality and poverty reduction. This article draws attention to the impact of heavy, intensive, and unequal burdens of unpaid care work on the human rights of women living in poverty, and analyses the relevance of international human rights law to decisions on […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know