An infinite cycle of cleaning, cooking and care giving at home can harmfully affect a woman's health, studies and life. How can women be superior supported? What kind of a role men play?
Women and girls spend significantly more time than men responsibility unpaid care work – such as cooking food, collecting sweet water and fuel from far distance and clearing and caring for children and condolence for sick relatives – but their role is rarely recognized by policymakers.
Beside her restless unpaid work we have observe that she is suffering with Violation of women’s human rights most common in poor areas. To maintain household budget girls are forcedly sent to work in labor markets instead of sending her at school. Women in job have to fit care work into their day time, leaving little to no relaxation time, and many times shifting the liability for household tasks on to other female members of the family.
This burden can harmfully affect a woman's health and her life, and because of the unofficial nature of care work, it is not recognized by the society, which resulting that women are often not is entitled for social benefits, such as pensions.
More strain added while caring for a family member with HIV and Aids. According to UNAids, caring for anyone with Aids can raise the workload of a family caregiver by a third.
A study published in August by the special reporter on severe poverty and human rights, Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona, argued that the imbalanced care household tasks heaped on women was a "main hurdle to gender impartiality and to women's equal pleasure of human rights, and, in many cases, condemn women to poverty".
The study said acknowledgment in the Beijing declaration in 1995 (a global commitment to achieve equality, development and peace for women) that the disproportion between women and men in paid and unpaid work required to be tackled had not been coordinated with action. "All over the world, millions of women still facing that poverty are their incentive for a lifetime spent caring, and unpaid care terms by women and girls is still treated as an countless cost-free resource that fills the gaps when public services are not offered or reachable," it said.
The statement outlined recommendation for governments on how to worth and restructure unpaid care work. First off, it called on all remaining countries that have not sanctioned the convention on the removal of all forms of intolerance against women to do so, and to regard it, as well as related conventions from the International Labor association on rights to work.
Governments should also carry out regular surveys on the time given over to care work with a view to recognizing, lessening and redistribute it, it said. They should also propose strategy that take into account unpaid care, which could contain the provision of within your means childcare, or better, local healthcare provision to shift the duty for attending to a family medical needs from a woman to the public segment.
Future progress goals, the contents of which are being talked about at worldwide level, should also take into account unpaid care in its objectives and signs, said by the report, mainly its impact on women's rights.
To agree with the report, the Institute of Development Studies - which initiated an animation on the toll on unpaid work on women - Action Aid and Oxfam held an event to discuss the report conclusion and the issues more generally.
So what do you suggest? How can we change thinking so it is not expect women will be accountable for care work? What role do men play in this discussion? How can women enjoy leisure living in poorer areas? Have you any reference to share?
