Promoting women’s empowerment at work and beyond: expanding childcare options
NGO Forum event at the 61st Session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
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NGO Forum event at the 61st Session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
Published by: IDS
Globally, paid care work, such as care for children or the elderly is a fast-growing sector of the market economy. Yet, it remains undervalued by governments and citizens in both monetary and societal terms which has damaging implications for women’s economic empowerment and gender relations more broadly.
Unique evidence from IDS and partners incorporated into the first High Level Report on Women’s Economic Empowerment highlights the centrality of unpaid care work to women’s economic empowerment and their opportunities in the world of work.
IDS researchers urge World Health Summit participants and decision-makers globally to take a broader approach to address the social, structural and economic determinants of health, and to ensure community involvement in interventions with genuine gender inclusivity.
Join us at AWID2016 to debate how technologies are enabling women to express their voices and moblise.
Published by: IDS
This Evidence Report seeks to understand the health and other impacts of slum women’s access to sanitation through the Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach.
Published by: IDS
Globally, there is growing awareness of the need to prioritise mental health as a development issue, with a historic step achieved by the inclusion of mental health in the Sustainable Development Goals. Less understood is the impact that providing care for people who are struggling with mental illness has on those who provide it.
IDS, IDRC and Oxfam invite you to be part of process to galvanise discussion around transforming the dynamics in the care economy.
Women’s increasing entry into the labour market has not been matched by a change in the gendered division of unpaid care work. The UNDP Human Development Report 2015 estimates women do 3 out of every 4 hours of unpaid work.