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Gender &
Development Special Issue on CARE out now!
This issue of
Gender & Development explores care from a gender perspective. Care is a
social good; it not only sustains and reproduces society, but also underpins
all development progress. Yet the vast majority of care work is done free, at
home; and it is widely seen as a female responsibility. This gender division of
labour has profound implications for women and girls – both in terms of their
daily lives and options, and their status in society. Writers in this issue
explore women’s experience of care work in different contexts from a feminist
perspective, highlighting the impact that care work has for their lives,
choices and wellbeing, and for the institutions of family, state and market –
all of which lose out through unsustainable arrangements for care. Authors
share innovative policy, advocacy and programme experience from different
development organisations aiming to ensure care is shared more equitably. The
goal is for care work to be divided fairly between the sexes, and between the
household and other social institutions, including the state.
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Editor Caroline Sweetman’s blog on the new issue
Care - from motherhood and apple pie to human rights
Journal Contents
Editorial
Introduction to gender, development
and care
Deepta
Chopra and Caroline Sweetman
Articles
What is a
transformative approach to care, and why do we need it?
Valeria Esquivel
What does
care have to do with human rights? Analysing the impact on women's rights and
gender equality
Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona and Kate Donald
Public
policies on water provision and early childhood education and care (ECEC): do
they reduce and redistribute unpaid work?
Marzia Fontana and Diane Elson
Policy
advocacy for women's unpaid care work: comparing approaches and strategies in
Nepal and Nigeria
Deepta Chopra, Patience Ekeoba, Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed, Rachel Moussié
and Mona Sherpa
Not
'women's burden': how washing clothes and grinding corn became issues of social
justice and development
Thalia Kidder, Zahria Mapandi and Hector Ortega
Transforming
gender roles in domestic and caregiving work: preliminary findings from
engaging fathers in maternal, newborn and child health in Rwanda
Kate Doyle, Jane Kato-Wallace, Shamsi Kazimbaya and Gary Barker
Valuing
unpaid labour in community Fair Trade products: a Nicaraguan case study from
The Body Shop International
Felicity Butler
Caring for
people with intellectual disabilities in poor rural communities in Cambodia:
experience from ADD International
Sylvie Cordier
Resources
Care Resources List
Compiled by Liz Cooke
Views, events,
and debates (available to subscribers only)
Edited by Liz Cooke
Book Reviews (available to subscribers only)
Edited by Liz Cooke
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