Resources on Care Economy

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    Podcast series: Global challenges – Global solutions

    Tackling gender segregation: How a new policy tool can finally help bring about change

    06 March 2024

    In the world of work, men and women are often segregated by their type of work, one main reason that women suffered more job losses during the COVID-19 crisis than men. Now, a joint program of UN Women and the ILO has developed a new tool to help policymakers rethink the design of sectoral policies and make informed decisions on where to invest to have a greater impact on gender equality.

  2. UN Women - ILO Policy Tool

    Assessing the employment situation in five countries and promoting a gender responsive structural transformation

    09 February 2024

    A consolidated report on lessons learned and policy insights

  3. UN Women - ILO Policy Tool

    Social accounting matrix-based analysis of gendered employment sectoral strategies in Ethiopia

    09 February 2024

  4. UN Women - ILO Policy Tool

    Gendered employment analysis and policy recommendations in Ethiopia

    09 February 2024

    Evidence from Hawassa and Yirgalem Intergrated Industrial Parks

  5. Publication

    Public investment in care services in Argentina. Coverage of deficits, employment generation, fiscal efforts and economic impacts

    17 July 2023

    Based on the methodology developed by ILO-UN Women (2021), this study provides the results of an exercise to estimate the deficits in meeting the demand for care in the country (coverage and quality, including staff working conditions) for each of the sub-sectors (education, health and long-term care), as well as the investments needed to reverse this, and the economic and employment implications of expanding and strengthening care policies in a comprehensive manner in a future scenario up to 2030.

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    News

    ILO launches Global Care Policy Portal and Care Policy Investment Simulator

    07 March 2023

    ILO hopes these new tools will encourage the investment needed to support the two billion people still without adequate maternity and paternity support, parental leave and childcare services.

  7. Event

    The New ILO Care Policy Investment Simulator: Technological innovation to promote gender-transformative investments in the care economy

  8. Technical note

    ILO care policy investment simulator: Technical note

    07 March 2023

    This Technical Note provides guidance on how to use the online ILO Care Policy Investment Simulator by explaining the underlying methodology, calculations and results. The Simulator helps build tailor-made care policy investment packages to fill national gaps on care leave policies and services, as a means of advancing the ILO transformative agenda for gender equality and non-discrimination.

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    UN Women - ILO Joint Programme

    Technical workshop on Care, Decent Work and Macroeconomic Policy

    This technical workshop will showcase results of the UN Women and - ILO Joint Programme collaboration, inform on key lessons learnt, share innovative approaches, and reflect on issues and strategic future perspectives on care, decent work and macroeconomic policy.

  10. International Women's Day 2022

    Princess Sarah Culberson: Invest in the care economy for a better gender equal world

    11 March 2022

    In celebrating International Women's Week, author, humanitarian and global public speaker, Princess Sarah Culberson of Sierra Leone, joins the ILO to call on countries to invest in the care economy and transformative policies to shape a better future and achieve the SDGs in 2030.