{"id":7910,"date":"2020-02-04T08:50:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T05:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7910"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:50","slug":"unpaid-care-the-economic-ball-and-chain-thats-holding-women-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/04\/unpaid-care-the-economic-ball-and-chain-thats-holding-women-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpaid Care: The Economic Ball And Chain That&#8217;s Holding Women Back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Victor Oluoch <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Expensive and inaccessible public services and infrastructure shackling women to unpaid care and domestic work stand in Kenya\u2019s way to achieving its development goals, warns Oxfam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInadequate water systems, fuel and cooking facilities result in women and girls having to make long and backbreaking daily trips to collect water and firewood, while under-funded health services mean they must walk miles to get medical care for their family,\u201d notes Oxfam&#8217;s policy brief released today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement draws on research and programming experience from Oxfam\u2019s Women\u2019s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) initiative in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another tragedy, the statement observes, is that such free labour, \u201cwithout which our economies would collapse\u201d, accounts for $10 trillion of global output annually (roughly equivalent to 13 percent of global GDP) but is never in official GDP calculations and remains largely absent from government policies. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/newsplex\/2718262-5442896-11jo0ttz\/index.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Victor Oluoch Expensive and inaccessible public services and infrastructure shackling women to unpaid care and domestic work stand in Kenya\u2019s way to achieving its development goals, warns Oxfam. \u201cInadequate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}