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Counting Women’s Work

Care sustains our societies but standard measures of economic activity only include care if it is provided for pay. The vast majority of care, however, is provided on an unpaid basis, mostly by women. Unpaid care work―including direct care for children, elders, or other persons as well as indirect care in the form of housework and managing and maintaining households―adds considerable value to total welfare and economic output. Because these household services are largely performed by women, standard measures that leave them out underestimate women’s economic contribution.

Counting Women’s Work is an international research projected dedicated to measuring the gendered economy, including unpaid care work.  It is through measurement that we begin to value the role of care in society, to count the contributions of the women and men who provide it, and to reckon with its cost.

It is also through measurement that unpaid care work can be integrated into social science and policy analysis in ways not previously possible, leading to better policy-making around issues of labor and economic growth, social welfare, gender equity, and human capital investment.

www.countingwomenswork.org/


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  • T20 Co-Chair Brief
    The Imperative of Addressing Care Needs for G20 countries
    • Abigail Hunt (Overseas Development Institute (ODI))
    • Carla Isnaldi (Women 20 Argentina)
    • Carolina Robino (International Development Research Centre)
    • Estela Rivero Fuentes (Counting Women’s Work)
    • Gala Díaz Langou (Centro de Implementacion de Politicas Publicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento (CIPPEC))
    • Sarah Gammage (International Center for Research on Women (ICRW))
    • Urvashi Aneja (Tandem Research)
    • Margo Thomas (Women’s Economic Imperative)
  • T20 Co-Chair Brief
    Achieving “25 by 25”: Actions to make Women’s Labour Inclusion a G20 Priority
    • Alina Sorgner (Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW))
    • Boris Branisa (Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD))
    • Carolina Robino (International Development Research Centre)
    • Cindy Drakeman (DoubleX Economy)
    • Estela Rivero Fuentes (Counting Women’s Work)
    • Florencia Caro Sachetti (Centro de Implementacion de Politicas Publicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento (CIPPEC))
    • Gala Díaz Langou (Centro de Implementacion de Politicas Publicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento (CIPPEC))
    • Margarita Beneke de Sanfeliu (Fundación Salvadoreña Para El Desarrollo Economico Y Social (FUSADES))
    • Paloma Ochoa (Fundación ICBC)

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