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Understanding Unpaid Care Work to Empower Women in Market Systems Approaches: Policy Brief

Approaches to support women to participate in paid work often assume that women’s time is elastic. They fail to consider roles and responsibilities in the household and the community, and this can undermine both development outcomes and market activities.

Understanding Unpaid Care Work to Empower Women in Market Systems Approaches

Published by: The BEAM Exchange

Interventions designed to support women to participate in productive or paid work – either as business owners or employees – are often based on assumptions around the elasticity of women’s time.