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Un women oxfam action aid_ids slides final
1. Inspiring actions to recognize,
reduce and redistribute rural
women's unpaid care work
Thematic Webinar Series on Women's
Economic Empowerment
19 November 2013, 9-10 am EST
2. Welcome & Ground rules
• We would love to have your feedback and
questions. Kindly send your comments and
questions through the chat box.
• If you would like to speak, please raise the hand
sign. The Moderator will unmute your
microphone once it is your turn to speak.
3. Session Tips
Ensure that your AUDIO is working. Kindly use your
computer headset or phone connection.
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other applications on your computer (improves
speed!).
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email to knowledge.gateway@unwomen.org
4. Polling questions
Which household task do you most LIKE to do?
A: cooking (incl. getting water and fuel)
B: washing or ironing clothes
C: cleaning house
D: food shopping or growing food
E: care of children, elderly or sick
6. Who is who in today’s webinar?
Speakers
Thalia Kidder
Moderator
Rachel Moussié
Anna Falth
Deepta Chopra
7. Agenda for today’s webinar
1. Background and ‘common ground’
What is Care? What is the problem? - Deepta Chopra
Linking care to human rights & women’s rights – Rachel Moussie
Policy asks and strategies for change: the ‘4 Rs’ – Thalia Kidder
POLL
2. Working with communities, communications & advocacy
Oxfam’s Rapid Care Analysis, local influencing, viral emails – Thalia
Getting Care on the Agenda, Action Aid experience – Rachel
Institute of Development Studies Animation - Deepta
Discussion, QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
8. What is care?
Definition: ‘Care’ includes direct care of people, housework that
facilitates caring for people (indirect care) and volunteer community
care of people, and paid carers, cleaners, health and education workers
Care is a social good, underpins all development progress
Sustains and reproduces society
Markets depend on care for their functioning
Unpaid care work
9. Why is Unpaid Care Work important?
1. Care has a widespread, long-term, positive impact on wellbeing and
development, & is critical to address inequality and vulnerability.
2. Care is important in understanding women’s lives:
Occupies large amounts of women’s and girls’ time -- restricting
participation in civil, economic and social spheres
Lack of leisure time -- reduction in women and girl’s well being
Drudgery ....adverse health outcomes
Income from paid work....eroded with costs of care substitution
Economic empowerment through paid work...individualised, limited and
unsustainable
Who cares when women work in paid jobs ....reduction of care, adverse
outcomes for care recipients
10. What’s the problem?
It is UNEQUAL
Unequal distribution of care undermines women’s and girls’ rights,
limit their opportunities, capabilities and choices and impedes their
empowerment.
It is INVISIBLE
In Policy – Intent and implementation
In Research – Political economy analysis of processes; M&E,
impact evaluations
In Programming – entry points, integration/ mainstreaming
(women-related and general programmes)
Amongst donors, government officials, researchers
In budgeting - It has INADEQUATE INVESTMENT.
11. Research on SP and ECD policy
No of policies
reviewed
No. of policies
which have a
care intent
No. of countries
that these
policies were
from
Social Protection
107
23 (21%)
16 (out of 53) –
SSA and LA
Early childhood
development
270
41 (15%)
33 (out of 142) –
LA and SSA
SP: Main focus on redistribution of care responsibilities from the family to
the state. Nothing about redistribution within the family; only 2 about
reduction of drudgery
ECD: Focus is on support for carers in terms of better parenting, including
the inclusion of men as fathers. Redistribution to state mainly based on
recognition of women working outside the home in paid jobs; No policy for
reduction of drudgery
http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bitstream/handle/123456789/2795/bitstre
am;jsessionid=26091DD43F6653874EFB06A98CA57843?sequence=1
12. Linking care to HR and WR
“Across the world, millions of women still find that poverty 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. This report calls for a fundamental shift in this
status quo, as part of States’ fundamental human rights obligations.”
UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights – Report on unpaid
care work , September 2013
13. Linking care to HR and WR
Q: What are the human rights violations that we see due to women’s and
girls’ unequal responsibility for unpaid care work
The report mentions the following rights violations:
•Right to work
•Rights at work
•Right to education
•Right to health
•Right to social security – maternity leave
•Right to benefit from scientific progress – infrastructure
•Right to participation
14. Linking care to HR and WR
Q: What are the human rights violations that we see due to women’s and
girls’ unequal responsibility for unpaid care work?
A Careless Budget
15. Approach – policy asks & strategies for change
•
•
•
•
Recognise* care and care work
Reduce difficult, inefficient tasks
Redistribute responsibility for care
more equitably - from women to men,
and from families to the
State/employers
Representation of carers in decisionmaking
… as a precondition for achieving
women’s political, social and
economic empowerment, and for
addressing poverty and inequality
* “Three Rs of Unpaid Work” Prof. Diane Elson 2008
16. Societies provide care through ‘care diamond’*
Household
….
Market employers
State:
pays, provides,
regulates care
NGOs,
community &
religious groups
* S. Razavi 2007
17. Examples of policy asks, interventions
1. Recognize
Government census includes care work, unpaid work, time-use surveys
Education - appreciation of carers, school curriculum
Development actors - (Unpaid) care documented with time use diaries, stories
Media– radio spots, TV, posters, street theatre, viral emails
2. Reduce
Available, accessible time & labour-saving devices; infrastructure development
3. Redistribute
Women to men: men learn cooking, do cleaning, child care, elder care
Families to the state/employers:
Increased care budgets; employers -childcare, health, maternity, pensions
Away from poor women & families:
Infrastructure & services in poor communities; domestic workers’ rights
4. Represent
Women unpaid carers represent themselves in municipal planning. domestic
workers involved in labor rights, or economic planning
18. Any Questions or Comments?
REMINDER!! Please type them in and we’ll answer them after the
presentations…
19. POLL: Why is care invisible in your context?
A: “Care isn’t
considered work”
?
B: “Care is something women
do, it’s ‘natural’ and normal”
C: “it happens in the
private sphere”
D: “too hard to change
and/or not easy to
measure”
E: “it’s not clear what the
alternatives are, what
can we do?”
Write in other
reasons!
20. In your context,
What might be the first step, or the most effective
strategy or policy ask?
RECOGNIZE
CARE through
documenting,
publicizing &
appreciating
REDUCE time,
difficulty,
labour
intensity of
CARE tasks
REDISTRIBUTE
responsibility
for CARE from
women to
men
REDISTRIBUTE
responsibility
& costs from
(poor) families
to the state /
employers
Increase
REPRESENTATION
of CARERS in
decision-making
& policy
A
B
C
D
E
21. Communities, Communications & Advocacy
What makes a ‘4 Rs’ initiative effective?
Care is a significant issue here – context-specific evidence
It’s relevant , appealing & compelling – we should do something.
It’s feasible, workable - we can do something.
It’s inspiring!
22. Rapid Care Analysis in development programs
Oxfam’s Rapid Care Analysis (RCA) is a 1-2 day exercise with focus groups of
12-20 women and men, a first step to addressing care in development.
FOUR STEPS
Exploring relationships of care – whom do
you care for and who cares for you?
Unpaid and paid work activities of women &
men – estimate average weekly hours on care
Context-specific problem statement:
- Gender and age analysis of care work; changes
in policy, migration, environment; identify ‘most
problematic activities’ for women.
Options to reduce and redistribute care:
- Community map of infrastructure & services:
identify and prioritise options and actions
RCA focus group in the
Philippines
23. Women’s vs. Men’s work
Example from Bangladesh… hours per week
71 hrs
106 hrs
Hours per week
24. Advocacy for infrastructure and services
Water systems
Azerbaijan
Bangladesh
Colombia
Honduras
Nicaragua
OPT
Philippines
Sri Lanka
Tanzania
Electricity
Childcare and
play facilities
Health and
social
services
Technology to
Transportation
improve
and school
cleaning and
bus
cooking
25. Popular communications: AFM network & Oxfam
Viral emails:
migrant domestic
workers’ rights
Recognize economic
contribution of care
work
International ‘care
chains’
http://www.mujeresdelsur-afm.org.uy/
27. Getting Care on the Agenda
Naming, Framing, Claiming and Programming
Naming: Make care visible in policy discussions - Care is important
to sustaining any society, yet unequal and concentrated care provision
by a few is a problem. So why is it not visible?
Framing: Promote care as integral to human wellbeing - Women’s
rights, well-being, inequality and poverty, national development, burden?
Claiming: Demand government action – Changing policies to
recognise, reduce and redistribute unpaid care work through public
service delivery, improved regulations on labour conditions etc.
Programming: Support more equitable distribution of
care responsibilities – Designing programmes that address unpaid
care work
Eyben, Rosalind. 2013. Getting unpaid care onto the development agendas. IDS
In Focus Policy Briefing, Issue 31, January 2013
28. Getting Care on the Agenda: Action Aid example
Advocacy happens in many different ways, but here are some of the steps we’ve
taken at ActionAid to make care visible:
1.Participatory research and awareness raising amongst women
2.Building the capacity of women and their groups or organisations to value
unpaid care work
3.Comparative participatory research with men
4.Women’s groups identify and prioritise their demands for change
5.Presentation of participatory research during community meetings
6.Using research, case studies and women’s testimonies to make care visible to
national policy makers
7.Identifying allies, building national coalitions and working with the media
ActionAid. 2013. Making Care Visible: Women’s Unpaid
Work in Nepal, Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya.
29. IDS Animation: ’WHO CARES’
Unique approach to presenting research on unpaid care work linking women
and girl's economic empowerment and their human rights.
Unpaid care work underpins the well-being of all societies, rich and poor, but
is unrecognised and undervalued by policymakers and legislators.
Need for policy change that recognises the role of women and girls in the
provision of unpaid care; reduces the drudgery of unpaid care; and
redistributes unpaid care work (from women to men, and from the family to
communities and the state), thus laying the basis for true gender equality.
What does care-sensitive public policy look like?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVW858gQHoE
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On your screen now is a map of the world. At the left hand side of your screens, there are several buttons arranged in a rectangular format. The second one from the top – with the star symbol – is called the pointer button.
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1. Unpaid care occupies large amounts of women and girl’s time, leading to time poverty which impacts directly on the rights that women and girls can enjoy – including the right to work, right to education, and the right to participation. These links have been made explicit in the UN special rapporteur’s report on unpaid care
2. The lack of leisure time reduces women and girl’s wellbeing as well as impacting negatively on their health.
3. Women in the paid labour market may not be able to provide for adequate substitutes for their care responsibilities, compromising the human development outcomes for those that they are caring for.
4. Any substitutes may come through pushing the care responsibilities to older women and girls, which impacts on their development and rights.
limited, as women may dropout or fail to take full advantage of the opportunities available
b) individualised, rather than shared: if older women and girls replace mothers in the care of small children, physical and time pressures may mean they experience disempowerment
c) unsustainable, because poor quality care is likely to have lasting adverse impacts on cognitive, educational, and therefore economic prospects of the next generation
5. Finally, the income from paid work may be eroded by payments for substitute care, which defeats the objective of economic empowerment.
The report mentions the following rights violations:
Right to work
Rights at work
Right to education
Right to health
Right to social security – maternity leave
Right to benefit from scientific progress – infrastructure
Right to participation
I would add right to rest and leisure.
Many of these rights violations are brought about or aggravated by specific economic policies. Here we draw on the great contribution that feminist economists have made to this debate in highlighting how economic policies rely on women’s unpaid care work to cushion the blow of austerity measures under structural adjustment programmes in the 80s and 90s, and today in response to the financial crisis. Cuts in public services, de-regulation of labour policies, and the lack of regulation to protect the environment are all political and economic policies that either ignore unpaid care work or take advantage of primarily women’s and girls’ labour. In the context of austerity women’s unpaid care work is seen as an “unlimited and cost-free alternative to public services and…shock-absorber for the crisis.” Framing the discussion on the basis of women’s rights and inequality highlights that this is not a cost-free alternative at all and that women, of which the poorest and most marginalised, end up being trapped in poverty.
The report mentions the following rights violations:
Right to work
Rights at work
Right to education
Right to health
Right to social security – maternity leave
Right to benefit from scientific progress – infrastructure
Right to participation
I would add right to rest and leisure.
Many of these rights violations are brought about or aggravated by specific economic policies. Here we draw on the great contribution that feminist economists have made to this debate in highlighting how economic policies rely on women’s unpaid care work to cushion the blow of austerity measures under structural adjustment programmes in the 80s and 90s, and today in response to the financial crisis. Cuts in public services, de-regulation of labour policies, and the lack of regulation to protect the environment are all political and economic policies that either ignore unpaid care work or take advantage of primarily women’s and girls’ labour. In the context of austerity women’s unpaid care work is seen as an “unlimited and cost-free alternative to public services and…shock-absorber for the crisis.” Framing the discussion on the basis of women’s rights and inequality highlights that this is not a cost-free alternative at all and that women, of which the poorest and most marginalised, end up being trapped in poverty.
The report mentions the following rights violations:
Right to work
Rights at work
Right to education
Right to health
Right to social security – maternity leave
Right to benefit from scientific progress – infrastructure
Right to participation
I would add right to rest and leisure.
Many of these rights violations are brought about or aggravated by specific economic policies. Here we draw on the great contribution that feminist economists have made to this debate in highlighting how economic policies rely on women’s unpaid care work to cushion the blow of austerity measures under structural adjustment programmes in the 80s and 90s, and today in response to the financial crisis. Cuts in public services, de-regulation of labour policies, and the lack of regulation to protect the environment are all political and economic policies that either ignore unpaid care work or take advantage of primarily women’s and girls’ labour. In the context of austerity women’s unpaid care work is seen as an “unlimited and cost-free alternative to public services and…shock-absorber for the crisis.” Framing the discussion on the basis of women’s rights and inequality highlights that this is not a cost-free alternative at all and that women, of which the poorest and most marginalised, end up being trapped in poverty.
So, care is invisible. It’s unequal. It has inadequate investment.
Many people are convinced that ‘care provision is problematic’, but where do we start to make change?
We know that the way societies organise care – the way that care is provided – is based on long-standing patterns and power relations. It’s based on beliefs, on rules and policies - in culture, in politics and in economics. It’s all very complex
It’s important to be able to communicate in a simple way what are our strategies for change, the asks in policy advocacy -
Diane Elson proposed a powerful framework of 3 Rs, and we’ve added a fourth R - Our strategies in communities and organisations are these 4 Rs, and they’re also the 4 ‘asks’ to policy makers.
Recognise Care... Reduce... Redistribute... And increase Representation.
WHO are we asking to change?
The Care Diamond shows how each society divides up responsibility for providing care -
Men & women, girls and boys provide care in household through unpaid work
The market provides care – through paid workers, cleaning businesses and employers paying for maternity leave or health care
Care is provided by NGOs, community and religious groups
And the state provides care – by paying subsidies, or employing care professionals and regulating business & employers.
So our claims for Redistribution of care are from families at the top of the diamond down to states and employers
And the claims for Reducing the drudgery of care, are that the state and businesses and NGOs provide infrastructure and services to support households.
Development actors – must include business/ employers
In the thematic review -
Need evidence of the problem
Rigorous Time use surveys are critical , but very expensive. National level surveys are
Installing water pumps – Azerbaijan, Philippines
Installing electricity – Honduras, Philippines, Sri Lanka
Providing childcare services – Azerbaijan, Colombia, Honduras, OPT, Philippines
Improving healthcare and sanitation services – Azerbaijan, OPT, Philippines
Providing public parks where children can spend time safely – OPT
Building capacity to improve and enforce laws on labour and women’s rights – OPT
Providing a bus service to take children to and from school – Sri Lanka
Raising awareness on family planning – Bangladesh