Aatif Somji

Oct 26, 2023 | odi.org | Aatif Somji

Globally, women and girls carry out on average more than three times as much unpaid care work as men and boys, which equates to roughly 12.5 billion hours of unpaid care work performed every single day. This brief outlines what government policy can do to foster more gender-equal norms relating to care. Care work – paid and unpaid – remains deeply gendered with negative financial impacts for women, but governments can take concerted action to shift wider social norms.

Mar 3, 2023 | odi.org | Sara Pantuliano |Gary Barker |Aatif Somji

This International Women's Day, we ask how and why men should care more about feminist visions for a fairer society. Every year on 8 March, women organise together to collectively demand their rights – specifically to transform gendered inequalities in paid and unpaid labour. But there is an aspect of this conversation that is not talked about enough. It is about men’s neglected role at home in unpaid care work and in supporting women's activism.