All publications: care economy
UN Women - ILO Policy Tool
UN Women - ILO Joint Programme Synthesis Report, Argentina
UN Women - ILO Policy Tool
Sectoral potential for the creation of female jobs and proposed avenues to achieve gender equality on the labour market
A Moroccan Perspective
ILO Policy Brief
From global care crisis to quality care at home: The case for including domestic workers in care policies and ensuring their rights at work
The case for including domestic workers in care policies and ensuring their rights at work.
ILO Policy Brief
From global care crisis to quality care at home: The case for including domestic workers in care policies and ensuring their rights at work...
ILO Report
Care at Work: Investing in Care Leave and Services for a More Gender Equal World of Work
Companion Regional Report for the Middle East and North Africa
UN Women - ILO Consolidated Report
Assessing the employment situation in five countries and promoting a gender responsive structural transformation
A consolidated report on lessons learned and policy insights
ILO Country Brief- Jordan
Care Work in China: Who does care work, what is its economic value and how has it been affected by Covid-19?
UN Women and ILO worked together to produce this report to better understand care work and the economy of care in China, where policy recommendations are put forward to strengthen the societal reorganization of care to help shape a more equal and...
Experiences on training and certification for care work in Latin America
Guide for the national debate on the incorporation or improvement of training and certification services for care in early childhood,...
Room document 7: Measurement of unpaid domestic and care work
Room document for 21st ICLS
Room document 8: Statistical definitions of care work
Room document for 21st ICLS
Gender equality and women workers
Investments in childcare for gender equality in Asia and the Pacific
The report highlights why and how investing in childcare impacts positively on gender equality and decent work in Asia and the Pacific.
Maternity protection
Maternity leave in metropolitan Indonesia: Evidence on duration, benefits and job protection
This study assesses the actual experience of women workers in accessing statutory maternity leave in terms of duration, benefits and job protection in metropolitan Indonesia.
Intervention model
Cooperative care provision as a gender-transformative decent work solution
The ILO’s Gender, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Branch (GEDI) and Cooperative, Social and Solidarity Economy Unit (COOP/SSE) are working together on building an innovative cross-regional, multi-country programme on Cooperative Care Provision as...
Domestic workers
Reproducing a household: Recognizing and assessing paid and unpaid domestic work in urban India
This study report is an important contribution towards understanding employers’ perspectives, by recognising and assessing the paid and unpaid domestic work that goes into reproducing a household.
Domestic workers
Employer practices and perceptions on paid domestic work: Recruitment, employment relationships, and social protection
This study report is an important contribution towards understanding employers’ perceptions, rationale and bases that underlie how employers in urban India engage, value, and perceive domestic work.
Domestic workers
Deficits in decent work: Employer perspectives and practices on the quality of employment in domestic work in urban India
This study report contributes towards understanding employers’ perspectives on existing working conditions and practices relating to recruitment, income security, employment security and social security available to domestic workers.
Domestic workers
Methods for spatial sampling of urban neighbourhoods by socio-economic status in Indian cities
This brief note lays out an approach to neighbourhood selection and houselisting for large surveys in urban cities. This approach was used for a multiple round household survey in two India cities using quantitative and qualitative research methods...
The Future of Work and Lifelong Learning
Equipping Health Workers with the Right Skills
Skills Anticipation in the Health Workforce