Gender equality and women empowerment for sustainable development: The challenge of unpaid work

• Main Author: Ranieses, Jessica Jaye S.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2022
• Subjects: Sex discrimination against women; Sustainable development; Unpaid labor; Gender; Equality; Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/11330
• Institution: De La Salle University

This article focuses on women – a sector that has been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic due to unpaid care work. Unpaid work refers to “all unpaid services provided within a household for its members, including care of persons and housework” (Elson, 2000, as cited by Xue & Mc...