Oxfam Canada

Published purpose

The project addresses inequalities in paid and unpaid care work as intersecting themes. The visibility of care work and the momentum to address it in post pandemic presents a unique opportunity to shift who does daily care work; improve the conditions of paid care work (such as domestic workers); shift power relations between women and men, and shift responsibility for investments in care from household to state. The project activities include: (1) increasing the adoption of positive, gender-equitable social norms in support of care work at the community level; (2) having an equitable sharing of care work at the household level, particularly to benefit women and girls; (3) increasing the adoption of gender-transformative legislation, policies, and practices by duty-bearers in support of paid and unpaid care work; and (4) achieving equality in the division of care work.