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Balancing unpaid care work and paid work carried out qualitative and quantitative research in India, Nepal, Rwanda,Tanzania across 16 sites. This research explores how women’s economic empowerment policies and programmes can take unpaid care work into account, in order to enable economic empowerment to be optimised, shared across families and sustained across generations. It focuses on the social organisation of care in low income households, and at the role of families, state, private sector and not-for profit sector.
Ultimately it aims to identify measures that can lead towards a ‘double boon’, creating paid work that empowers women and provides core support for their unpaid care work responsibilities.
Balancing unpaid care work and paid work is part of the global Growth and Equal Opportunities for Women programme (GrOW)
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From Double Burden of Women to a “Double Boon”: Balancing Unpaid Care Work and Paid Work
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-05)Women in paid work from low income families are engaged in poorly paid, precarious employment, even as they are overburdened with unpaid care work responsibilities. This double burden has depleting consequences for both ... -
A Trapeze Act: Balancing Unpaid Care Work and Paid Work by Women in Nepal
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-06)Women in paid work from low income families are engaged in poorly paid, precarious employment, even as they are overburdened with unpaid care work responsibilities. This double burden has depleting consequences for both ... -
Women’s Economic Engagement and Childcare: Moving from Survival to a ‘Triple Boon’
(Institute of Development Studies, 2019-10-09)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 ... -
No Time to Rest: Women’s Lived Experiences of Balancing Paid Work and Unpaid Care Work
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-11)This report provides evidence on the lived experiences of women in low-income families, as they strive to balance their paid work and unpaid care work responsibilities. It presents the findings of a mixed-methods research ... -
Oxfam’s Food Security for Tanzania Farmers Programme: Guidelines for Achieving the Double Boon
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-11)The Oxfam Food Security for Tanzania Farmers programme (2012–15) aimed to increase food production and income, and improve the quality of life and food security for smallholder farmers, particularly women, in Tanzania. In ... -
Making Women Development Fund More Care-Responsive
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-11)The Women Development Fund (WDF) was established by the Government of Tanzania in 1992, with the objective to support the economic empowerment of women, and especially rural women. This note discusses the main findings of ... -
A Trapeze Act: Balancing Unpaid Care Work and Paid Work by Women in Nepal
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-11)This working paper seeks to examine the relationship between unpaid care work and paid work that women in low-income households in Nepal perform, and whether, and if so how, they are able to maintain a balance between the ... -
‘You Cannot Live Without Money’: Balancing Women’s Unpaid Care Work and Paid Work in Rwanda
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-11)This paper summarises the findings of mixed-methods research that was carried out in Rwanda as part of the ‘Balancing Unpaid Care Work and Paid Work: Successes, Challenges and Lessons for Women’s Economic Empowerment ... -
‘You Cannot Live Without Money’: Women Balancing Paid Work and Unpaid Care Work in Rwanda
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-08)Rwanda’s recent history has seen a variety of government and non-government programmes that have helped increase women’s political participation, awareness of rights and access to finance, and women’s involvement in off-farm ... -
'My Mother Does a Lot of Work': Women Balancing Paid and Unpaid Care Work in Tanzania
(Institute of Development Studies, UK, 2017-10)Tanzanian women spend more time overall than men on unpaid care work activities, and less on cash-earning work. This report presents the findings of research conducted in Tanzania as part of the ‘Balancing unpaid care work ... -
‘My Work Never Ends’: Women Balancing Paid Work and Unpaid Care Work in India
(Instiute of Development Studies, 2017-10)The ‘Balancing unpaid care work and paid work’ research project was carried out to create knowledge on how women’s economic empowerment (WEE) policy and programming can generate a ‘double boon’ - paid work that empowers ... -
A Trapeze Act: Women Balancing Paid Work and Unpaid Care Work in Nepal
(Institute of Development Studies / The Institute of Social Studies Trust (ISST), 2017-10)Despite high rates of labour force participation by women in Nepal, there has been very little engagement by communities and the state on the issue of women’s ‘double burden’ of balancing unpaid care work with paid labour ... -
ActionAid’s Food Security and Economic Empowerment Programme in Muko Sector, Northern Rwanda: Guidelines for Achieving the Double Boon
(Instiute of Development Studies, 2017-08)Despite an impressive socioeconomic transformation over the past few decades, Rwanda ranks as one of the least developed countries in the world. Today, over 75 per cent of the population remain dependent on agriculture for ... -
Making Rwanda’s Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme Public Works Care-Responsive
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-08)Rwanda’s Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme (VUP), which comprises cash transfers, public works and financial services, aims to eradicate extreme poverty by 2020. Public works, the focus of the research outlined in this note, ... -
Making Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) More Care-Responsive
(Institute of Development Studies / The Institute of Social Studies Trust (ISST), 2017-08)Started as a pilot in 200 of the poorest districts of India in 2006, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is a demand-based public works programme which entitles every rural household in ... -
‘How Can It Be a Problem If You Need Them Both?’ Women Juggling Paid and Unpaid Care Work in Tanzania
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-09)This paper summarises the findings of mixed-methods research that was carried out in Tanzania as part of the ‘Balancing Unpaid Care Work and Paid Work: Successes, Challenges and Lessons for Women’s Economic Empowerment ... -
‘My Work Never Ends’: Women’s Experiences of Balancing Unpaid Care Work and Paid Work through WEE Programming in India
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-09)This paper seeks to lay bare the contours and consequences of the relationship between paid work and unpaid care work for women in low-income households, in order to better understand the relationship between women’s ... -
Empowerment Programming and Unpaid Care Work: Learning from 30 years of the Self Employed Women’s Association in Madhya Pradesh (SEWA MP)
(Institute of Development Studies / The Institute of Social Studies Trust (ISST), 2017-08)The Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) aims to provide an enabling environment for women’s inclusion into economic growth processes through mobilising workers to claim their rights and entitlements from the state and ... -
Care Responsiveness of Livelihoods Programming: The Enterprise Development Programme, Oxfam Nepal
(Institute of Development Studies / The Institute of Social Studies Trust (ISST), 2017-06)Oxfam launched the Enterprise Development Programme (EDP) in Nepal in 2011. As a livelihoods programme, it aims to develop capabilities and markets for small rural enterprises, with a specific focus on women. The programme ... -
Making Karnali Employment Programme More Care-Responsive
(Institute of Development Studies / The Institute of Social Studies Trust (ISST), 2017-06)The Karnali Employment Programme (KEP) was launched by the Government of Nepal in 2006 with the slogan of ‘ek ghar ek rojgar’ (one household, one job). The aim was to provide at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment, ...