Opinion: The Burden of Unpaid Care Work Amidst COVID-19, By Busola Ajibola
The time to ramp up advocacy on caregiving as a gender-neutral work that must, at all times, be distributed is now. The advocacy should focus on reorienting men, boys and other members of the family to take up fair shares of care work. Testimonies of such interventions designed by Action Aid are proof of how women’s and men’s perception of care work can change…
Encompassing work such as cooking, laundry, fetching water, child-care , care for the sick, care for the elderly and more, care work is the oil that greases the engine of society. It ensures the smooth functioning of human societies, preventing them from descending into chaos. The designation of care work as belonging to women and girls stems from gender stereotypes and is erroneous.
Although at a slow progress, efforts committed to empowering women and girls towards the attainment of gender equality have yielded continuous progress. More women have emerged, beyond the traditional roles of housewives/mothers, as outstanding professionals in various fields. With this major shift, women are armed with equal skills and capabilities as men, and they contribute in equal measures to the workforce, leadership, and social development.
The reality, however, is that women, whether they work in the informal or formal sectors, bear a double burden of working in private spaces, as much as they work in public spaces. Affluent and middle-class women get the work done by proxy through hired domestic help. Even in these instances, women are responsible for giving directives.
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