Unpaid Care Work: the Missing Link in the Analysis of Gender Gaps in Labour Outcomes
From OECD. Using time use data, this policy brief analyses the impact of gender gaps in time devoted to unpaid care activities on gender gaps in labour outcomes.
The first section provides an overview of gender inequalities in caring responsibilities.
The second section shows that gender inequalities in unpaid care work are related to gender gaps in labour outcomes, such as labour participation, wages and job quality.
The third sections assesses the key role of discriminatory social institutions for understanding gender inequalities in unpaid care work.
Finally, the fourth section proposes policy recommendations to lift the constraints on women’s time by both reducing the burden of unpaid care work borne by women as well as redistributing the caring responsibilities between women and men, and between the family and the State.