The child care industry in the US has long been underfunded and overlooked, but when COVID-19 hit in the spring of 2020, the lack of investment in our nation’s child care sector became a glaring problem. The pandemic pushed millions of parents into remote work and many into unemployment; child care centers closed; and schools […]
The child care industry in the US has long been underfunded and overlooked, but when COVID-19 hit in the spring of 2020, the lack of investment in our nation’s child care sector became a glaring problem. The pandemic pushed millions of parents into remote work and many into unemployment; child care centers closed; and schools […]
COVID-19 has highlighted the vital importance of care to the functioning of economies and societies, while also demonstrating that the massive care work increases borne mostly by women and girls will, if left unaddressed, exacerbate inequality for years to come. The United States is in a prime position to fulfill its commitment to gender equality […]
The 2021-2024 Oxfam America (OUS) Unpaid and Underpaid Care Work Strategy is intendedto guide our work over the next three years to contribute to decreasing gender inequalitythrough a revaluing of unpaid and underpaid care work (UUCW) in the US andinternationally, which will help to foster fair and caring economies (See “Vision Statement”below).1For this strategy, unpaid […]
The study reveals findings from a rapid poll exploring the gendered and racial impacts of COVID-19 on unpaid care work, which was part of MenCare: A Global Fatherhood Campaign. The report demonstrates how COVID-19 has brought an unprecedented crisis of care in the United States, with a particular workload being taken on by women as a group, and Black, Latinx, and Asian individuals.
Women around the world spend more time than men doing unpaid care and domestic work:taking care of children, elders, and the ill. In the United States, women spend 37 percentmore time on unpaid care than men. This unequal distribution of unpaid work—work that isessential to families and society—limits women’s career choices, income, and personaldevelopment. It […]
