Childcare crisis is economic crisis! Childcare crisis is a climate crisis!

My dreams of a feminist economic power are so embedded in the way we organize our societies, our homes and workplaces .They are not economies where women are charged for her reproductive roles, doubled taxed and disfranchised in their own economies. It is rather a dream that dream is that women must be rewarded and recognized by valuing their double burden of care which society defines .

Informal workers cannot afford childcare services due to their low incomes: Within the informal economy ,women are still situated in the most vulnerable forms of employment as homeworkers and unpaid family workers. UN Women notes that across 31 countries in the global south ,less than one percent of women living in poverty have access to childcare services(2015).Their low earnings and vulnerable working conditions make it difficult for workers in the informal economy to pay for care services. More beyond the childcare continuum, Care services for women and girls constitute care for family members with disabilities ,elderly relatives , including those with health psychosocial ,mental needs

Around the world women do more care and domestic work alongside their paid and unpaid work than men (UN Women, 2015). Women’s care responsibilities are intensified when they have young children, elderly relatives, or people living with disabilities in their households.

Research from Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) highlights how without access to maternity entitlements and quality child care services, women workers in the informal economy take up more insecure work compromising their income security and their children’s wellbeing in order to work and provide care (Alfers, 2016). This in part explains the persistent gender inequalities in the labor market (ILO and WIEGO, 2012). In addition, paid care work, such as child care, elder care and domestic work is predominately done by women for low wages due to gender norms that devalue care and see it as women’s responsibilities, further entrenching gender segmentation within labor markets.

Together we can empower women in informal economy to advocate for more organized economies by ensuring that Governments and development partners treat childcare(infrastructure) as essential for workers' employment ,but also key in developing human capital

Together we can empower women in informal economy advocate for childcare infrastructure within their workplaces .Join me to build economics of solidarity .

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