Unpaid Care Work, Poverty and Women's Human Rights: Challenges and Opportunities for the Post-2015 Agenda
8 Pages Posted: 4 Dec 2014
Date Written: October 21, 2013
Abstract
This paper examines the links between unpaid care work, poverty and women’s human rights, arguing that heavy and unequal unpaid care workloads not only keep women in poverty, but also affect their enjoyment of several human rights and stunts progress towards gender equality. It then makes some recommendations as to how unpaid care work should be included in the post-2015 agenda, with a view to ensuring that development policy more adequately recognizes and tackles this obstacle towards women’s rights enjoyment, equality and greater social and economic empowerment.
Keywords: gender equality, human rights, unpaid care, MDG, Post 2015 development agenda, women economic empowerment
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