Care EconomyArticles

UN Women uses Kenya’s National Care Policy process to show how time-use evidence can inform childcare, social protection, labor rights, and basic-service reform.

ILO labor-force data identifies unpaid care as a major structural barrier to women’s employment and shows how region, income, and family institutions widen the gap.

An ILO and Magdalene time-use experiment makes Indonesian women’s invisible care hours concrete, showing how family responsibility consumes rest, paid work, and autonomy.

UN Women defines care as a public good and social infrastructure, connecting gender equality, climate crisis, public services, and care workers’ rights in one policy framework.

WHO connects the concentration of women in paid and unpaid care with low wages and underinvestment, showing that the care crisis is a structural result of devaluing women’s work.

An AWID co-created manifesto argues that a just care economy must recognize domestic workers’ labor rights and leadership, not treat care as an input to economic growth.

This Beijing+25 regional synthesis measures progress and persistent gaps across work, care, violence, health, and political power, giving South Asian feminist claims a comparative policy baseline.

Katherine Ronderos links personal, social and political care to show why activists’ wellbeing and security are part of sustaining feminist movements, not private concerns outside politics.

Mia Mingus introduces access intimacy: the bodily ease, trust, and relational safety that can emerge when someone deeply understands and respects a disabled person's access needs.