Why you should care about unpaid care work
By Jorge Moreira da Silva, Director, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD
The way we currently measure our economies ignores a large portion of work that affects all of us. Most of this work is done by women and girls for free, every day. Around the world, they are responsible for 75% of unpaid care and domestic work in our homes and communities (see Figure 1). So these issues are not just hypothetical, but critical to achieving inclusive economic growth and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Figure 1: Gender gaps in unpaid care work by geographic region
