{"id":5330,"date":"2020-01-21T19:08:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T19:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=5330"},"modified":"2020-01-21T19:08:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T19:08:45","slug":"the-worlds-women-put-in-billions-of-hours-of-unpaid-care-work-in-the-face-of-rising-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/the-worlds-women-put-in-billions-of-hours-of-unpaid-care-work-in-the-face-of-rising-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Women Put in Billions of Hours of Unpaid Care Work in the Face of Rising Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Islamabad; 21 Jan 2020 – Today our economies are shaped to favour few wealthy elites that are accumulating massive wealth and power \u2013 while billions of women and girls work for hours caring for others, for free. It would take a Pakistani minimum wage worker 638 years to earn what a national bank CEO earns in a year. It is a well-known fact that despite being the backbone of informal workers\u2019 families, the poorest of poor in the world are women workers.<\/p>\n

If women do not have access to affordable care services, they have to shoulder the care responsibilities of the family, and either reduce their number of work hours and thus income or entrust the elder children with this responsibility \u2013thereby compromising their education. Poor women workers do not only contribute to their family and national economy, but also to natural ecology.Therefore, Oxfam believes that care work should be considered as skilled work and paid at par with other skilled work. Organizing care workers, building their capacity, designing proper curriculum and training to improve the quality of their services, certification and enabling policies for care givers would bring dignity and self-respect to these workers, and also set standards for the care economy.<\/p>\n

Oxfam launched it\u2019s global report on inequality and unpaid care work titled \u2013 \u201cTime to Care<\/a>\u201d Oxfam in Pakistan\u2019s Country Director, Mohammad Qazilbash referencing to the report stated, \u201cToday\u2019s extreme wealth is also founded on sexism. Our economic system was built by rich and powerful men, who continue to make the rules and reap the lion\u2019s share of the benefit.Every day the gap between rich and poor is widening which if ignored will create more economic burden on the poor especially women and girls. Tending to others, cooking, cleaning, fetching water and firewood are essential daily tasks for the well being of societies, communities and the functioning of the economy. The heavy and unequal responsibility of care work perpetuates gender and economic inequalities.Never have we faced such an opportunity for welcoming and valuing the work of millions of care workers in the mainstream economy, be it formal or informal. The government of Pakistan must act now to build a human economy that is feminist and values what truly matters to society.\u201d<\/p>\n

Women do more than three-quarters of all unpaid care work. They often have to work reduced hours or drop out of the workforce because of their care workload. Across the globe, 42 percent of women cannot get jobs because they are responsible for all the care giving, compared to just six percent of men.<\/p>\n

Women also make up two-thirds of the paid \u2018care workforce\u2019. Jobs such as nursery workers, domestic workers, and care assistants are often poorly paid, provide scant benefits, impose irregular hours, and can take a physical and emotional toll.<\/p>\n

Oxfam\u2019s report, shows how economies are fueling the inequality crisis \u2014enabling a wealthy elite to accumulate vast fortunes at the expense of ordinary people and particularly poor women and girls. The report shows governments are massively under-taxing the wealthiest individuals and corporations and under funding vital public services and infrastructure that could help reduce women and girls\u2019 workload. For example, investments in water and sanitation, education, childcare, healthcare could free up women\u2019s time and improve their quality of life.<\/p>\n

To calculate CEO pay, Oxfam used figures quoted in the media (https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/2019\/04\/22\/these-pakistani-bank-ceos-had-the-highest-salaries-in-2018\/).\u00a0 It is assumed that CEOs work 12 hours a day, including three out of every four weekends, and take fewer than 10 days\u2019 holiday per year. Minimum wage is based on the\u00a0 federal government recommended the minimum wage of Rs17,500\u00a0 in the budget presented for the next fiscal year starting July 1, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Islamabad; 21 Jan 2020 – Today our economies are shaped to favour few wealthy elites that are accumulating massive wealth and power \u2013 while billions of women and girls work for hours caring for others, for free. It would take a Pakistani minimum wage worker 638 years to earn what a national bank CEO earns […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[128,129,130],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5332,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5330\/revisions\/5332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}