The UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona submitted a report on women care workers whose contribution usually goes unrecognised, and almost always unremunerated. The report notes that unequal responsibilities in care work (including domestic work) stand as a barrier to gender equality, especially amongst women who live in poverty, and recommends that states take active measures to transform care work into a social and collective responsibility and increase women’s access to public services, care services and time-saving technology.
The report can be accessed here
TAGS: 2013, Employment, Special Rapporteur
