Women’s Economic Engagement and Childcare: Moving from Survival to a ‘Triple Boon’
dc.contributor.author | Chopra, Deepta | |
dc.contributor.author | Nazneen, Sohela | |
dc.contributor.author | Krishnan, Meenakshi | |
dc.coverage.spatial | India | en |
dc.coverage.spatial | Nepal | en |
dc.coverage.spatial | Rwanda | en |
dc.coverage.spatial | Tanzania | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-10-09T12:30:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-10-09T12:30:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-10-09 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Chopra, D.; Nazneen, S. and Krishnan, M. (2019) 'Women’s Economic Engagement and Childcare: Moving from Survival to a "Triple Boon" ', Policy Brief, Brighton: IDS | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/14738 | |
dc.description.abstract | Women’s childcare responsibilities are often seen as a barrier to them undertaking paid work. However, this is a two-way interaction, mediated by large quantities of unpaid work. Women thus find themselves in a downward spiral of a ‘triple burden’ consisting of (a) time‑consuming, yet unpaid work with no economic returns to them; (b) informal and back‑breaking low-paid work; and (c) supervisory childcare and domestic tasks like cooking, cleaning, and fetching water and fuel. This policy brief provides recommendations to reverse this spiral to achieve a ‘triple boon’ such that women are able to engage economically in decent paid work; undertake less drudgerous unpaid work tasks with control over any economic returns; and receive support for redistributing their childcare and domestic chores. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | UK Department for International Development | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | International Development Research Centre | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Hewlett Foundation | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.rights | This is an Open Access report distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International licence, which permits downloading and sharing provided the original authors and source are credited – but the work is not used for commercial purposes. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Gender | en |
dc.subject | Work and Labour | en |
dc.title | Women’s Economic Engagement and Childcare: Moving from Survival to a ‘Triple Boon’ | en |
dc.type | Other | en |
dc.rights.holder | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.identifier.team | Governance | en |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
rioxxterms.funder.project | 9ce4e4dc-26e9-4d78-96e9-15e4dcac0642 | en |
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