Domestic LaborArticles

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.

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.