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Unpaid Care Work
The unpaid cooking, cleaning and caring that keeps every economy running — mostly done by women, invisible in GDP.
Definition
Unpaid care work is the non-remunerated work of caring for household members and maintaining the household: cooking, cleaning, fetching water and fuel, caring for children, the sick and the elderly. Time-use data show women perform roughly three-quarters of it globally — an ILO-estimated 16.4 billion hours daily, valued at around 9% of global GDP — yet it is excluded from GDP, largely absent from policy, and the single largest structural driver of gender gaps in pay, pensions and leadership.
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