3 strategies to address the burden and reduce the impact of unpaid care work for women:
found that the poorest women in the world subsidize health care with their unpaid work to the tune of $1 trillion—a figure larger than the economies of over 150 countries.
Countries like Lesotho and Zambia have implemented Child Grant Programs—a cash transfer program that provides unconditional cash transfer to mothers in households with a child under the age of five—to try and make real this request. In Zambia, the Child Grant Program the amount of time that women spent on family agricultural and non-agricultural businesses.
that GDP only measures flows of income, but doesn’t tell us whether health care, education and the wealth of the natural world are being built up or plundered. for a completely new metric of economic progress that includes unpaid work in the home. to provide child care services showed that subsidizing it helped mothers to both find and maintain employment. Mothers who received subsidized child care were 17 percent more likely to be employed than mothers who did not.more than three times as much as men.
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