Investments in Childcare for Gender Equality in Asia and the Pacific
This is a study on the public provision of childcare across 48 economies in Asia and the Pacific through the lens of accessibility,...
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This is a study on the public provision of childcare across 48 economies in Asia and the Pacific through the lens of accessibility,...
Women’s lifelong health and nutrition status is intricately related to their reproductive history, including the number and spacing of...
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper highlights the case of MUVA Assistentes, a public works programme (PWP) that provided training and mentoring to young...
Published by: Taylor & Francis
Our research on government policy responses to address the increase in women’s unpaid care and domestic work during COVID-19, across...
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This is a participatory toolkit for understanding unpaid care work and its distribution within local communities and families. Together, these tools provide a way of ascertaining and capturing research participants’ understanding of women’s unpaid care work – giving special attention to the lived experiences of carrying out unpaid care work and receiving care.
This paper seeks to examine how childcare impacts upon women’s economic engagement in India, Nepal, Tanzania, and Rwanda. In delineating the linkages between childcare, paid work, and other tasks that women carry out within and outside the house, this paper privileges women’s own perceptions of childcare as ‘work’, and the extent to which they see this as a tension between women’s caregiving role and their income-generating role.
Questions of women's power remain a matter of heated debate globally, but take on a heightened intensity in a South Asia featuring...
Published by: IDS
Women’s childcare responsibilities are often seen as a barrier to them undertaking paid work. However, this is a two-way interaction, mediated by large quantities of unpaid work. Women thus find themselves in a downward spiral of a ‘triple burden’ consisting of (a) time‑consuming, yet unpaid work with no economic returns to them; (b) informal and back‑breaking low-paid work; and (c) supervisory childcare and domestic tasks like cooking, cleaning, and fetching water and fuel.
Published by: IDS
This report provides evidence on the lived experiences of women in low-income families, as they strive to balance their paid work and unpaid care work responsibilities. It presents the findings of a mixed-methods research project carried out in India, Nepal, Rwanda, and Tanzania during 2015–17.
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper summarises the findings of mixed-methods research that was carried out in Rwanda as part of the ‘Balancing Unpaid Care Work and Paid Work: Successes, Challenges and Lessons for Women’s Economic Empowerment Programmes and Policies’ research project (2015–17).