A woman’s job : who cares about unpaid carers ? | Global development | theguardian.com
▻http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/oct/07/woman-job-unpaid-carers
Article qui présente une chouette vidéo pour que le #travail_domestique, assumé principalement par les #femmes, soit pris en compte par les gouvernements
Women and girls spend substantially more time than men undertaking unpaid care work – such as preparing food, collecting water and fuel and clearning and caring for children and sick relatives – but their contribution is rarely acknowledged by policymakers.
As well as a violation of women’s human rights, the impact of this unpaid work, particularly on women who live in poverty, is huge. Household chores can prevent girls from going to school and infringe on women’s ability to join the labour market and improve their economic chances. Women in employment have to fit care work into their day, leaving little to no leisure time, and sometimes shifting the responsibility for household tasks on to other female members of the family.
This burden can adversely affect a woman’s health, and because of the informal nature of care work, it is not recognised by the state, which means women are often not be eligible for social benefits, such as pensions.
A report published in August by the special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona, argued that the unequal care responsibilities heaped on women was a “major barrier to gender equality and to women’s equal enjoyment of human rights, and, in many cases, condemn women to poverty”.
The report said recognition in the Beijing declaration in 1995 (a global commitment to achieve equality, development and peace for women) that the disparity between women and men in paid and unpaid work needed to be tackled had not been matched with action. “Across the world, millions of women still find that povety is their reward for a lifetime spent caring, and unpaid care provision by women and girls is still treated as an infinite cost-free resource that fills the gaps when public services are not available or accessible,” it said.