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The care connection The World Bank and women's unpaid care work in select sub- Saharan African countries

Year: 2013

Type: preprint

Abstract: With the aim of reducing women's greater unpaid care work than men&'s and increasing women's paid employment, this paper examines the extent to which World Bank investments address unpaid care work. The paper conducts an in-depth gender analysis of 36 World Bank employment-related projects in Malawi, Mali, Niger, and Rwanda. It concludes that the vast majority (92 per cent) of reviewed projects fail to account for unpaid care work. Exceptionally, Malawi's Shire River Basin Management Program and Niger's Community Action Program target women's needs as caretakers. But most reviewed projects do not address unpaid care work. Doing so would improve economic and human development and reduce gender inequality.

Source: RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

Authors: Sarah Bibler, Elaine Zuckerman

Language: English

Topic: Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Decent work and economic growth, Reduced inequalities, No poverty, Partnerships for the goals

Open Access status: green

Funders: African Development Bank Group, Styrelsen för Internationellt Utvecklingssamarbete, United Nations Development Programme, International Labour Organization, International Fund for Agricultural Development, United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research

OpenAlex ID: W2125151453

Cites: 20

Cited by: 9

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