✉news BusinessEconomy first seen 2 d ago, last 1 d ago, peak #3
The Global Economy Runs on Care Work
Original: The Global Economy Runs on Care
Commentators are arguing that unpaid and underpaid care work — childcare, eldercare, domestic labor — is a foundational part of the global economy, despite being largely invisible in GDP figures. Writers on inequality argue that economies depend on this labor while the workers, most often women, receive little pay or recognition, and that this imbalance is a core driver of economic inequality worldwide.
Why now: Ongoing debate about how care work is undervalued and its role in economic inequality is drawing attention.
Inequality.orgcare workersglobal economy
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- The Global Economy Runs on Care · Inequality.org
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