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While the impact has varied between groups of women, women in the informal sector, mainly those managing micro- and small-scale businesses, have been severely affected. Drawing on the case of urban Sri Lanka, this paper explores the challenges that women owners of micro- and small-scale […] View resource Research report Caring in a changing climate: Centering care work in climate action 23/02/2022 1 documents 129 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Care Development Livelihoods Overview The global care crisis is being exacerbated by the global climate emergency, with interlocking impacts that threaten lives and livelihoods in all parts of the world. These impacts are particularly severe among rural livelihoods in low-income countries. Climate change intensifies the work involved in caring for people, animals, plants, and places. It reduces the availability […] View resource Journal article The resistance strikes back: women’s protest strategies against backlash in India 07/12/2021 24 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Care Citizenship Amendment Act Feminist protests Feminist strategies Shaheen Bagh Women's activism Overview The Shaheen Bagh site epitomised the longest sit-in intergenerational protests in India since Independence. Especially novel about these protests was the presence and leadership of first-time Muslim women protestors. Shaheen Bagh also inspired other sit-ins across the country, including several across Delhi. Yet, nowhere except Shaheen Bagh did the struggle last as long, with the […] View resource Research report Measuring Social Norms on Unpaid Care Work: Insights from Oxfam’s household care surveys 12/10/2021 1 documents 8 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Care Gender norms Household care Social norms Unpaid care Overview This paper describes the approach to measuring social norms related to unpaid care work in Oxfam’s Household Care Survey (HCS), and discusses benefits and limitations of this approach. The HCS is a quantitative research tool developed through Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme. It measures adults’ and children’s time spent on unpaid care work […] View resource Discussion paper Feminist Futures: Caring for people, caring for justice and rights 14/09/2020 4 documents 23 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Care Climate crisis Feminist Human rights Social justice Overview In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, communities around the world are weighing the many possible answers to the questions of ‘how did we arrive here?’, ‘what comes after COVID-19?’ and ‘what kind of society do we want to build after this global shock?’ The pandemic has been so extraordinary in nature that in order to […] 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 Briefing note Care, Poverty, and Coronavirus Across Britain 28/04/2020 1 documents 29 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Care Care workers Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic Poverty Overview Carers, paid and unpaid, are at the forefront of our response to the Coronavirus, putting themselves at risk to protect us all. Yet, if you are a carer, for adults or children, you are more likely to be living in poverty. This is not right. This briefing note updates our Make Care Count report which […] View resource Journal article Women migrants in the global economy: a global overview (and regional perspectives) 28/03/2019 15 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Care Family and migration Gendered migration Intra-regional migration South-South migration Temporary migration Women in migration Overview Huge advances have been made in deepening and expanding our knowledge of gendered migration over the last decades in both theoretical and methodological terms. Empirically it is, however, still the case that North–South migration is at the basis of most theorisations, leaving the characteristics of South–South migration at the margins. In this paper we, therefore, […] View resource Spotted an error? Let us know