1. The role of the state in women’s empowerment
Deepta Chopra, IDS 23rd November 2018

2. Significance of UCW in women’s lives
Source: GrOW project

3. Multitasking Source: POWER project Rwanda 12-1am 11-12 pm 1-2 am 50 4540 35 30 25 20 15 10 5
10-11 pm
3-4 am
9-10 pm
4-5 am
8-9 pm
5-6 am
7-8 pm
6-7 am
6-7 pm
7-8 am
5-6 pm
8-9 am
Bangladesh
4-5 pm
9-10 am
Pakistan
3-4 pm
10-11 am
Rwanda
2-3 pm
12-1 pm
11-12 am
1-2 pm
Ghana
Source: POWER project

4. Key findings UCW takes large amounts of time from women and girls
Drudgery – from both UCW and paid work
Double burden
Physical
Emotional/ mental
Unpaid care work affects quantity, type and quality of paid work
Paid work affects quantity, type and quality of Unpaid care work
Depletion not empowerment

5. Key policy findings regarding policy messages
Provision of public services are key to reducing drudgery of UCW and paid work
Decent work opportunities will reduce drudgery of paid work
Redistribution to (poor) men works only to a limited extent (absentee men; paid work with equally arduous conditions)
Getting women into the labour market is not enough, and can be detrimental.

6. Role of the State Provision of public services and infrastructure
Accessible, affordable and good quality services
Water, Sanitation, Gas, Electricity
Childcare services, health and education facilities
Decent work for all:
Paid work opportunities
Working conditions and wages
Social protection
Bargaining and collectivization

7. Strategies for Advocacy
Naming: Make care visible in policy discussions - Care is important to sustaining any society, recognition, saturation strategy ; building an evidence base (Case studies)
Framing: Promote care as integral to human wellbeing - Women’s rights, well-being, inequality and poverty, national development, economic development, achievement of goals, burden?
Claiming: Demand government action – Changing policies to recognise, reduce and redistribute unpaid care work through public service delivery, improved regulations on labour conditions etc.
Programming: Support more equitable distribution of
care responsibilities – Designing programmes that address unpaid care work
Eyben, Rosalind Getting unpaid care onto the development agendas. IDS In Focus Policy Briefing, Issue 31, January 2013

8. Academic and popular communications (Global level and national level)
Animations:
-Time to care:
-’Who cares’:
Video stories:
-India:
-Nepal: Rwanda:
-Tanzania:
Case studies
-Rich, empirical information
-Some quantitative data, but women’s experiences and voices equally critical: