Women-Friendly Working Environment in Bangladesh

Handbook of Research on Women's Issues and Rights in the Developing World - Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-3018-3.ch004 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 52-68

Author(s):

Tania Haque

Keyword(s):

Negative Correlation ◽

Working Environment ◽

Care Work ◽

Gender Inequalities ◽

Paid Work ◽

Professional Work ◽

Double Burden ◽

Unpaid Care

Work is typically divided along gender lines with men being responsible for paid work and women for unpaid care work. There is a negative correlation between income and level of gender inequalities in unpaid care work. Income can give certain level of independence but reinforces new kinds of dependence and subordination of women in our society in Bangladesh. If women wish to begin their paid work, it means ideologically they want extra jobs and they have to willingly undertake this double burden of household and professional work. The study claims that there is a need of gender responsive rebalancing policies to ensure women friendly working environment to ensure actual empowerment of women in Bangladesh.

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Transforming care work and care jobs for the future of decent work

International Journal of Care and Caring ◽

10.1332/239788221x16099530336652 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 149-154

Author(s):

Laura Addati

Keyword(s):

Gender Equality ◽

Care Work ◽

International Labour Organization ◽

Paid Work ◽

Decent Work ◽

Global Policy ◽

Unpaid Care ◽

The Future ◽

Keynote Speech ◽

Policy Work

The article is an edited version of a keynote speech given at the 2019 Global Carework Summit and highlights the findings of the International Labour Organization report Care Work and Care Jobs for the Future of Decent Work. It takes a comprehensive look at the nexus between unpaid care work, paid work and paid care work, and its contributions to the future of work debates and global policy work around the achievement of gender equality.

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Paid Work and Unpaid Care Work in India, Nepal, Tanzania, and Rwanda

Women’s Economic Empowerment ◽

10.4324/9781003141938-12 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 186-206

Author(s):

Deepta Chopra

Keyword(s):

Care Work ◽

Paid Work ◽

Unpaid Care

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On the question of cheap care: Regarding A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things by Raj Patel and Jason W Moore

Irish Journal of Sociology ◽

10.1177/0791603519835432 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 200-207

Author(s):

Kathleen Lynch ◽

Mags Crean

Keyword(s):

Indigenous People ◽

Care Work ◽

Paid Work ◽

Unpaid Care ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

The Commons ◽

Abstract Ideas ◽

Nature And Society

One of the most engaging claims of Patel and Moore’s book is that abstract ideas have played a powerful role legitimating the exploitation of swathes of humanity, through distinguishing ontologically and epistemologically between nature and society. As most women, and indigenous people, were defined as part of nature, their labours and lives, including their care labour, were deemed to be part of nature and thereby legitimately exploitable. The authors claim that the cheapening of care arose from the separation of spheres between care work and paid work, between home and the economy, arising from the development of enclosures and the demise of the commons. What the book does not address, however, is how the exploitation of women’s domestic and care labour was not only beneficial to capitalism: men of all classes were and are beneficiaries of women’s unpaid care labour. The authors also suggest that the primary purpose of caring is to reproduce people for capitalism. But caring is not undertaken simply at the behest of capitalism. Nurturing and caring for others are defining features of humanity given the lengthy dependency of humans at birth and at times of vulnerability. The logic of care is very different to market logic.

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