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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

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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 […]

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Briefing note

Increasing Investments in Care in the IDA20 Replenishment

19/07/2021

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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IDA20 offers an important opportunity to tackle the rising gender inequality tied to the unequal distribution of unpaid care work between women, girls, and men. IDA is a crucial source of concessional finance that lower-income countries depend on and is one of the biggest providers of core support for human development and public services. Against […]

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Research report

Caring Under COVID-19: How the Pandemic Is -and Is Not- Changing Unpaid Care and Domestic Work Responsibilities in the United States

29/07/2020

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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The study reveals findings from a rapid poll exploring the gendered and racial impacts of COVID-19 on unpaid care work, which was part of MenCare: A Global Fatherhood Campaign. The report demonstrates how COVID-19 has brought an unprecedented crisis of care in the United States, with a particular workload being taken on by women as […]

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Briefing paper

Make Care Count: Unpaid and Underpaid Care Work Across Britain

28/04/2020

2 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

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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, […]

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Research report

Lingu, Bomba Talu and Naombo: Triple disaster in Central Sulawesi – a gender analysis

05/07/2019

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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On 28 September 2018, a major earthquake (lingu in the local language) with a magnitude of 7.4 struck Central Sulawesi in Indonesia, triggering a near-field tsunami (bomba talu), large-scale soil liquefaction (naombo) and landslides. As part of the subsequent humanitarian response, Oxfam and humanitarian networking partners JMK, including local organizations LBH APIK Palu and PKBI […]

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Briefing paper

Business Briefing on Unpaid Care and Domestic Work: Why unpaid care by women and girls matters to business, and how companies can address it

04/06/2019

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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There is growing evidence that business leaders and managers understand that the unequal and heavy share of unpaid care and domestic work done by women and girls is an issue which matters to the effective (on-going) operations of their firms. Some companies have already taken practical steps to address the issue by supporting employees along […]

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Briefing paper

Public Good or Private Wealth? Universal health, education and other public services reduce the gap between rich and poor, and between women and men. Fairer taxation of the wealthiest can help pay for them.

21/01/2019

13 documents

40 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Our economy is broken, with hundreds of millions of people living in extreme poverty while huge rewards go to those at the very top. The number of billionaires has doubled since the financial crisis and their fortunes grow by $2.5bn a day, yet the super-rich and corporations are paying lower rates of tax than they […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Making Policy Care: A guide to influencing on unpaid care

18/10/2018

3 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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This guide aims to capture valuable experiences and learning on influencing activities on unpaid care and domestic work from across the WE-Care programme and several other relevant Oxfam country experiences, and to communicate it in an accessible, practical format that maximizes use for internal and external audiences. The guidelines provide new and useful guidance to […]

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Research report

Gender Roles and the Care Economy in Ugandan Households: The case of Kaabong, Kabale and Kampala districts

13/08/2018

1 documents

84 pages long

Languages: English

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This report examines the distribution of unpaid care and domestic work in households in the Ugandan districts of Kaabong, Kabale and Kampala. It seeks to understand the connection between social norms and the gendered division of work, including how much time women, men, boys and girls spend on paid work and unpaid care work in […]

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Research report

Rohingya Refugee Response Gender Analysis: Recognizing and responding to gender inequalities

01/08/2018

1 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English

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Since August 2017, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees have fled Myanmar for camps in the Cox's Bazar district of Bangladesh. The research for this report was conducted to identify the needs, vulnerabilities, risks and concerns of Rohingya refugee and host community women, girls, men and boys in Cox's Bazar, as well as the skills […]

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