What is Unpaid Domestic Care Work?

Take the quiz to find out how unpaid care contributes to poverty

What to know:

  • Women and girls spend millions more hours on unpaid housework and care duties compared to men and boys.
  • Due to COVID-19, millions of women and girls lost income and schooling to help at home and care for family members.
  • Take this quiz and learn more about why unpaid domestic care work contributes to poverty, and how to fix it.

Learn More about this cause:

Women and girls worldwide are responsible for 75% of all unpaid domestic care work. Unpaid domestic care is a global crisis that has gotten worse with the ongoing global Covid-19 pandemic.

The burden of unpaid care falls on young adolescent girls, depriving them of time for education and pushing them deeper into extreme poverty.

This never-ending cycle fuels poverty for many young women, as unpaid domestic care contributes millions of dollars to the global economy.

We can alleviate poverty, increase gender equity, and provide quality care services to children and the elderly by recognising, reducing, and redistributing the amount of unpaid care work done by women and girls, while also creating more care jobs for women as paid care workers.

Now, a new World Bank Childcare Incentive Fund has been established to address the child care crisis by developing a programme to alleviate the burden of child care. 

Take this quiz and learn more about the hidden factor driving poverty for many young women - unpaid domestic care work.