Time to Care: Unpaid and Underpaid Care Work and the Global Inequality Crisis

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In 2019, the world’s 2,153 billionaries had more wealth than 4.6 billion people. Calls for a “human economy that is feminist and benefits the 99%, not only the 1%.”

Proposes “a set of solutions to radically reprioritize care”, the ‘4Rs’ framework:

Recognize unpaid and poorly paid care work, which is done primarily by women and girls, as a type of work or production that has real value.
Reduce the total number of hours spent on unpaid care tasks through better access to affordable and quality time-saving devices and care-supporting infrastructure.
Redistribute unpaid care work more fairly within the household and simultaneously shift the responsibility of unpaid care work to the state and the private sector.
Represent the most marginalized caregivers and ensure that they have a voice in the design and delivery of policies, services and systems that affect their lives.

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