Connecting Unpaid Care Work and Childhood Development for Gains in Women and Children’s rights
Abstract
Women’s rights and children’s rights directly influence each other, yet there
have been few successes at tackling the agendas collaboratively thus limiting the
quality of policy and practice in both areas. Integrating unpaid care concerns into
early childhood development policies has the potential to positively reinforce
both women’s and children’s rights. Addressing this challenge involves recognising
the value of unpaid care work in relation to childcare, redistributing childcare
responsibilities from women to men, and recognising that responsibility for children
goes beyond the immediate family to the collective community and the state.