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Time to Care: Unpaid and underpaid care work and the global inequality crisis
Coffey, Clare Espinoza Revollo, Patricia Harvey, Rowan Lawson, Max Parvez Butt, Anam Piaget, Kim Sarosi, Diana Thekkudan, Julie
Coffey, Clare
Espinoza Revollo, Patricia
Harvey, Rowan
Lawson, Max
Parvez Butt, Anam
Piaget, Kim
Sarosi, Diana
Thekkudan, Julie
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Celles qui comptent : Reconnaître la contribution considérable des femmes à l’économie pour combattre les inégalités
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2020-01-20
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<p>Economic inequality is out of control. In 2019, the world’s billionaires, only 2,153 people, had more wealth than 4.6 billion people.</p>
<p>This great divide is based on a flawed and sexist economic system that values the wealth of the privileged few, mostly men, more than the billions of hours of the most essential work – the unpaid and underpaid care work done primarily by women and girls around the world. Tending to others, cooking, cleaning and fetching water and firewood are essential daily tasks for the wellbeing of societies, communities and the functioning of the economy. The heavy and unequal responsibility of care work perpetuates gender and economic inequalities.</p>
<p>This has to change. Governments around the world must act now to build a human economy that is feminist and values what truly matters to society, rather than fuelling an endless pursuit of profit and wealth. Investing in national care systems to address the disproportionate responsibility for care work done by women and girls and introducing progressive taxation, including taxing wealth and legislating in favour of carers, are possible and crucial first steps.</p>
<p><a href="https://indepth.oxfam.org.uk/time-to-care">Time to Care online report summary</a></p>
<p>Learn more about the <a href="https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/our-work/gender-justice/womens-economic-empowerment/we-care">WE-Care programme</a></p>
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978-1-78748-541-9