From cooking and cleansing, to fetching water and firewood or taking good care of youngsters and the aged, UN Girls knowledge reveals that globally, ladies spend 2.8 extra hours on unpaid care and home work than males. Consequently, they’ve much less time to have interaction in paid labour, or work longer hours, combining paid and unpaid labour.
Within the Caribbean, Barbados will gather knowledge for the primary time that measures unpaid home and care work domestically, making it the second nation within the sub-region to take part in a regional pilot aimed toward figuring out the contribution of unpaid home care work to the economic system.
The Barbados Statistical Service (BSS) and UN Girls Multi-Nation Workplace (MCO) – Caribbean have partnered to implement this initiative, introducing focused inquiries to the Steady Labour Pressure Survey. This knowledge will supply perception into the distribution of family obligations that ladies and men share inside their residence and household networks.
Unpaid care work constitutes virtually half of complete world work time. It sustains households and communities on a day-to-day foundation. Absence of this knowledge implies that the work and its contribution to the economic system stays unrecognised.
Deputy Consultant, UN Girls MCO – Caribbean, Isiuwa Iyahen mentioned: “We all know the figures globally, however we have to fill this essential knowledge hole within the area. From a socio-economic standpoint, the extra ladies interact in unpaid work, the much less time they’ve to have interaction in paid employment, pursue entrepreneurship and even have moments of leisure, which is a elementary proper. Step one in closing that hole is first understanding the extent or prevalence.”
Availability of this region-specific knowledge may also inform insurance policies that deal with entry to companies that may assist gender equitable distribution of unpaid care work throughout the residence and society; equivalent to companies for childcare, eldercare and look after individuals with disabilities and parental depart for each ladies and men.
In January, the BSS and UN Girls consultants skilled enumerators on the aims of the brand new questions on unpaid care and home work for them to in flip assist those that can be taking part within the survey. The Barbados unpaid care work knowledge assortment is a part of the UN Joint Programme “Built-in Inhabitants Knowledge and Coverage Options for SDGs Acceleration in Barbados and Montserrat funded by the UN SDG Fund. UN Girls additionally funded three (3) enumerators who will help with the gathering of this knowledge and offered six (6) android tablets by way of this programme. The SDG Fund programme is being applied by UN Girls MCO Caribbean and UNFPA.
Labour Pressure Surveys are one of many major nationwide family surveys carried out by international locations to acquire official nationwide statistics on the labour drive, unemployment and employment. Barbados, and different signatories to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Improvement and its SDGs are ready to make use of this info to trace progress on SDG 8 (First rate Work and Financial Progress); and SDG 5 (Gender Equality).
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