States should acknowledge role of unpaid work

MUMBAI: An independent United Nations expert has underlined the need for more gender equality in the sharing of household work such as cooking, cleaning and caring for children and the elderly, an issue that is crucial but often overlooked in countries like India.

"I call on States to recognize unpaid care work as a major human rights issue," UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty, Magdalena Sepulveda, told the UN General Assembly's main social, humanitarian and cultural body (Third Committee) in New York. She pointed out that unpaid care that is not shared ingrains poverty and social exclusion for women.

Unpaid work has often been overlooked in policy making resulting in women who shoulder the double burden of work often laboring for longer hours than their male counterparts, at lower wages. The 2013 Global Gender Gap Report released just this week showed how no country had reached wage parity between the sexes, with women in most countries drawing lower salaries for the same work than that done by a man.

Sepulveda urged States to "ensure that the necessary public services and infrastructure - including childcare, healthcare, water and energy provision - are in place to support care, especially in disadvantaged areas."

Valuing unpaid work is a crucial step in valuing and empowering women in a particular society.

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