• Research Report

Caring Under COVID-19: How the Pandemic Is -and Is Not- Changing Unpaid Care and Domestic Work Responsibilities in the United States

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.

#HowICare: An International Project of MenCare: A Global Fatherhood Campaign

The #HowICare Campaign, launching June 18, 2020, is led by Equimundo and Oxfam as an international project of MenCare: A Global Fatherhood Campaign, active in more than 55 countries. A data-informed social media campaign, #HowICare aims to shed a light on the realities, difficulties, and disparities of providing care – specifically in caring for children, in order to advocate for additional support for caregivers – including the parents and care workers who are most impacted – during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond. It also aims to activate men as individuals, employers, and advocates in ensuring that care is a collective responsibility: shared equally and supported by structures and policies. This international campaign will feature new, rapid response polling data from the United States, Canada, UK, Philippines, and Kenya.

Care burden on Africa’s women and girls was always tough. COVID -19 has made it tougher

• Policy Brief

Unlocking Sustainable Development in Africa by Addressing Unpaid Care and Domestic Work

Across Africa, ambitions to achieve inclusive and sustainable development are being undermined by inadequate investment in the care economy. Women and girls are providing millions of hours of unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW) – a provision which props up the economy and underpins society, yet remains under-recognized, undervalued and under-invested in. While inattention to […]

• Briefing Note

Time to Care: Unpaid and underpaid care work and the global inequality crisis

Economic inequality is out of control. In 2019, the world’s billionaires, only 2,153 people, had more wealth than 4.6 billion people. 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 – […]

• Policy Brief

ON WOMEN’sBACKS

In the last couple of decades of analyses on women’s lives, the myth of complementarity and equalitybetween the sexes in the private sphere has been busted. On the ground, changes in traditional roles ofmen and women and the power hierarchy they breed are slow and often contested. This is so because social norms—a common understanding […]