Date of Publication: 2018
Care work, both paid and unpaid, is crucial to the future of decent work. Growing populations,
ageing societies, changing families, women’s secondary status in labour markets and shortcomings in
social policies demand urgent action on the organization of care work from governments,
employers, trade unions and individual citizens. If not adequately addressed, current deficits in care
service provision and its quality will create a severe and unsustainable global care crisis and increase
gender inequalities at work. [View resource]
