Unpaid care work Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Discussion paper

Radical Pathways Beyond GDP: Why and how we need to pursue feminist and decolonial alternatives urgently

03/08/2023

6 documents

71 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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There is growing consensus among policymakers, institutions and movements that GDP is not fit for purpose as the pre-eminent economic metric. Alternatives are urgently needed to facilitate the transition to a new economic model that supports a radically more equal, kinder, greener and feminist world in the present, while offering redress for historical damage and […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

How to Talk about Care in the UK: A framing toolkit

30/05/2023

6 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

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Across the UK, many people providing paid and unpaid care – including parents and guardians of children, paid care workers, and unpaid carers – experience poverty, and great physical and emotional pressures. This is because the care they provide remains largely taken for granted and is not properly supported by governments and wider society. In […]

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Journal article

‘My mother was a kitchen girl’: legal and policy responses to the problem of care for women who provide care in South Africa

31/08/2022

19 pages long

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‘My mother was a kitchen girl’: legal and policy responses to the problem of care for women who provide care in South Africa

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Domestic labour or care work creates the conditions through which other labour can occur, however, the value that this work provides is scarcely recognised when lawmakers consider its remuneration and regulation. This paper investigates legal discrimination against providers of domestic labour in South Africa, especially at home involving women in relationships and domestic workers. This […]

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Journal article

‘Care is not a burden’: a 7-4-7 framework of action for operationalising the Triple R

31/08/2022

23 pages long

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‘Care is not a burden’: a 7-4-7 framework of action for operationalising the Triple R

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Our research on government policy responses to address the increase in women’s unpaid care and domestic work during COVID-19, across 59 countries of Asia and the Pacific, shows that less than 30 per cent of measures are care-sensitive and of these only 12 per cent are gender-differentiated. From this analysis, this paper proposes a care-integral […]

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Briefing note

Feminist Scorecard 2022: Tracking Welsh Government action to advance women’s rights and gender equality

15/07/2022

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

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This scorecard tracks the Welsh government’s progress towards advancing women’s rights and gender equality between 2020 and 2022 in six policy areas: Fair Finance, Caring Responsibilities, Global Women’s Rights, Equal Representation and Leadership, Tackling Gender Health Inequalities, and Ending Violence Against Women and Girls. The scorecard examines the official statements, legislation, policies and practice for each policy area […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Care Principles: Guidelines for promoting care-responsive institutional strategies

13/09/2021

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Care work, both unpaid and underpaid, is mostly carried out by women, and still remains largely invisible in policies and projects across many organizations. The principles outlined in this guide aim to influence institutional policies towards recognizing, planning, adopting and monitoring strategies that reduce and redistribute care work.

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Briefing note

Why We Care: An overview of the distribution of unpaid care work in Ma’an, southern Jordan

29/06/2021

1 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English

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The concept of unpaid care work is not widely known in Ma’an or other parts of Jordan. As a result, the benefits of unpaid care to individuals’ lives, as well as its negative impact on women who bear a disproportionate share of it at the household level, are overlooked by both local communities and policy […]

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Journal article

The Beijing Platform for Action charted a future we still need to bring up: building feminist economic policy

24/06/2020

17 pages long

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The Beijing Platform for Action charted a future we still need to bring up: building feminist economic policy

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The Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), written 25 years ago, is remarkable in its economic diagnostics, analytical framework, and policy prescriptions, which remain fully relevant today. In this article, we revisit the main economic problems identified by the BPfA: GDP growth, employment, care, and poverty. In terms of GDP growth, the BPfA was clear that […]

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Research report

Et s’il y avait une grève dans les foyers ? Étude sur l’impact du travail de soins non rémunéré sur les femmes vivant en Tunisie : accès au travail, autonomisation économique et bien-être

25/01/2020

1 documents

58 pages long

Languages: French

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Le travail de soin non rémunéré désigne toutes les activités qualifiées de travaux reproductifs ou domestiques au sein des foyers sur une base non marchande. Bien que ce travail est essentiel pour l’équilibre de la société et l’épanouissement de la famille et le développement économique des pays, les normes sociales patriarcales d’un côté et les […]

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Briefing paper

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

20/01/2020

11 documents

64 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Korean, Spanish

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Economic inequality is out of control. In 2019, the world’s billionaires, only 2,153 people, had more wealth than 4.6 billion people. This great divide is based on a flawed and sexist economic system that values the wealth of the privileged few, mostly men, more than the billions of hours of the most essential work – […]

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