{"id":12566,"date":"2021-08-24T16:35:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T11:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=12566"},"modified":"2021-08-24T16:35:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T11:05:33","slug":"unpaid-care-work-exposes-women-to-virus-related-health-risks-violence-in-asia-and-the-pacific-un-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/unpaid-care-work-exposes-women-to-virus-related-health-risks-violence-in-asia-and-the-pacific-un-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpaid care work exposes women to virus-related health risks, violence in Asia and the Pacific: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Relevant for SOCIOLOGY Syllabus-<\/span><\/h3>\n

Emerging issues: ageing, sex ratios, child and infant mortality, reproductive health.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Violence against Women<\/span><\/h3>\n

\"Unpaid<\/p>\n

NEWS IN SHORT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Women make up the majority of workers in the health and social welfare sectors globally.<\/p>\n

Unequal distribution of unpaid care work between women and men is a major barrier to women\u2019s empowerment in Asia and the Pacific. The novel coronavirus diseases (COVID-19) pandemic has increased women\u2019s burden of unpaid care work<\/p>\n

Globally, women make up the majority of workers in the health and social welfare sectors. Nearly one in three women work in agriculture and\u00a0do three times as much unpaid care-work at home as men.<\/p>\n

The proportion of \u201cunpaid work per day is far higher for women than men globally, while in the case of India, on average 66 per cent of women\u2019s work is unpaid,\u201d\u00a0according to the World Economic Forum.<\/p>\n

SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/u><\/strong>Women\u2019s Health<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • Feminist research in economics has consistently highlighted the ways production depends on paid and unpaid work.\u00a0Social reproduction<\/em>includes the day-to-day work assigned largely to women \u2014 household labour, physical and emotional caregiving, and other work to meet human needs \u2014 required to \u2018maintain existing life and to reproduce the next generation\u2019. Without the day-to-day work of social reproduction, entire social systems would collapse.<\/li>\n
  • The value of women\u2019s paid and unpaid labour is increasingly apparent with the spread of COVID-19: as schools close, the role of teachers \u2014 disproportionately women \u2014 and public education as a mechanism of support and caregiving for families is laid bare, as women working for pay scramble to arrange childcare.<\/li>\n
  • Across many countries, women \u2014 especially women of colour \u2014 are overrepresented among low-wage workers on the front line during the COVID-19 crisis.<\/li>\n
  • Many have no choice but to go to work even when they are at risk of contracting the virus or they are sick, and they cannot telecommute. Nurses \u2014 disproportionately women \u2014 and other first responders must continue to work for pay.<\/li>\n
  • Women in grocery stores, where task segregation often places them in face-to-face interactions with customers, are essential workers and are newly being recognized as such<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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