Understanding the “Care Economy”

04/19/23 • 18 min

If all the world’s care workers were one national economy, it would be among the largest, in hours worked, in the world. It would also consist mostly of women, and they would be mostly unpaid.

If all the world’s care workers were one national economy, it would be among the largest, in hours worked, in the world. It would also consist mostly of women, and they would be mostly unpaid.

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Ankita Panda (00:03):

16 million hours or so go toward unpaid care work every day. And globally, women perform about three times as much unpaid care work as men. They constitute their own care economy, which deserves its own attention.

John Rieger (