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@careandsupportday
No matter the work, all care workers deserve decent working conditions, fair wages & social protections.
Care workers are vital to communities: some provide life-saving services, others care for our families & homes.. Read the full statement!
The Solidarity Center issued the following statement in celebration of International Day of Care and Support: Today, on the International Da
Why Care, Why Now?
The United Nations General Assembly issued a resolution on 24 July 2023, declaring 29 October of every year as the International Day of Care and Support.
Why Care, Why Now?
Building thriving, equitable, and sustainable economies and societies for generations of today and tomorrow.
[As delivered]
Today, and every day, we recognize the skilled and the essential work of paid and unpaid care workers around the world.
Care work is the backbone of our well-being and prosperity. Without it, our societies and economies would simply not function. Yet, it often remains invisible. The significance of unpaid care has been enormously undervalued and overlooked in public policy and excluded from metrics of economic progress. Paid care work, meanwhile, continues to be undervalued and underpaid.
Care work is a gender equality issue.
We all know the data: women and girls remain the default providers of this essential labour, engaging in more than 2.5 times as many hours a day in unpaid care work than men. An estimated 80 per cent of paid domestic workers worldwide are also women, with 9 out of 10 of them working without social protection.
It is women living in poverty, migrant women, and women informal workers who shoulder the largest share of unpaid or under-paid care work.
These numbers are not just numbers. They reflect deep structural barriers that create unequal opportunities and outcomes for women and girls in education, in employment, in leadership and in financial security across their life.
They reflect a profound disconnect between what is essential for societies and economies to thrive and what is prioritized in policies and budgets.
We know that investing in robust care policies, quality care services, and basic time-saving care infrastructure is a triple win for individuals, for communities and for economies. These investments can simultaneously reduce women’s time and income poverty and enhance their labour market participation.
Evidence shows us that investing in care can increase the number of decent care jobs, potentially creating 300 million jobs by 2035.
Today, we are calling for care work to be valued as a public good, as skilled and essential work, and for quality care and support to be recognized as the basis for equal participation in society.
UN Women stands committed to working with you to transform care systems and to build thriving, equitable and sustainable economies and societies for generations of today and tomorrow.
We are making great strides. Countries such as Australia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Kenya, Panama, Uruguay, among many others, are progressing national care policies or strategies, and I applaud these efforts.
UN Women is further advancing this critical work through our global initiative TransformCare, working with our partners and allies, Member States, civil society organizations, the private sector and UN agencies to advance valuing care through comprehensive policies.
The new UN system-wide policy guidance on transforming care systems – developed under the leadership of the Deputy Secretary-General, Ms. Amina Mohammed, which UN Women proudly co-led with ILO, OHCHR, UNDP and ECLAC – gives us a roadmap for getting there.
Next year, we will approach 30 years since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Let us leverage this opportunity, continue to build momentum and push for stronger commitments to action to transform care systems.
Let us commit to build caring, thriving, equitable and sustainable economies and societies for today’s and tomorrow’s generations.
I thank you.
Opening remarks by Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN Women, Sima Bahous, at the United Nations Observance of the International Day of Care and Support 2024.
Panel discussion to mark the International Day of Care an Support 2024.
The focus of this year's celebration will be on transforming care systems to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in the context of Bei
In July 2023, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted a landmark Resolution (A/RES/77/317) to observe an annual International Day of Care and Support on 29 October. This Resolution encourages Member States, the UN system, civil society, the private sector, academia, the media and the global community to recognize and celebrate this day to raise awareness of the importance of care and support and its key contribution to the "achievement of gender equality and the sustainability of our societies and economies, as well as of the need to invest in a resilient and inclusive care economy, including the development of strong and resilient care and support systems". The Resolution further invites UN Women, the ILO and OHCHR to facilitate the observance of the International Day of Care and Support, in collaboration with other relevant organizations.
In this context, UN Women, in collaboration with the ILO, OHCHR and the co-sponsorship of Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico, Philippines and Spain is facilitating the UN's second observance of International Day of Care and Support on 29 October 2024. The focus of this year's celebration will be on transforming care systems to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in the context of Beijing+30, elaborating on the recent UN system-wide policy guidance on Transforming Care Systems in the Context of the SDGs and Our Common Agenda. As the world gears up for Beijing+30, this event will also provide a platform to encourage world leaders to take action to transform the undervaluing and gendered division of care work as a critical lever to shift the dial on gender equality and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Related Documents/ A/RES/77/317
Watch the panel discussion on transforming care systems to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in the context of Beijing+30!
Address gaps in the global care economy.
Caregiving, from infancy to old age, is an integral part of human flourishing in every society. It also relies predominantly on the labor of women and girls and is underpinned by persistent gender norms. Now, the recent caregiving crisis of Covid-19 and longer-term trends such as aging populations have begun to draw critical attention to the shortcomings of the global care economy, and have spurred new calls for action.
A flurry of recent efforts has included the 2022 Bali Care Economy Dialogue, the 2023 Women Deliver Care Economy Pre-Conference, a historic resolution on care this year at the ILO, and heightened attention at forums like the G7 and APEC. The latest fruit of this growing activism is an ambitious new publication, The Global Roadmap for Action on the Care Economy, from an informal coalition that includes the Center for Global Development, The Asia Foundation, the independent policy think-tank CIPPEC, Women Deliver, and the International Center for Research on Women.
The Roadmap provides a novel framework to elevate care on the global agenda by 2030. By identifying universal metrics and proposing systematic initiatives, it helps policymakers, advocates, researchers, and donors identify and begin to address gaps in the global care economy. Joining us this week to talk about the Roadmap, including key findings and next steps, are two of its authors, Kelsey Harris, of the Center for Global Development, and Ankita Panda, of the Asia Foundation.
October 29, 2024, marks the United Nations’ second International Day of Care and Support.
Protecting care work is essential to the future of decent work.
Care work is real work; On Tuesday’s #DayOfCare, join us in recognizing paid care workers and advocating for measures to combat stereotypes surrounding care & support roles.
Caring for carers.
The care economy is growing as the demand for childcare and care for the elderly is increasing in all regions. It will thus create a great number of jobs in the coming years. However, care work across the world remains characterised by a void of benefits and protections, low wages or non-compensation, and exposure to physical, mental and, in some cases, sexual harm. It is clear that new solutions to care are needed on two fronts: in regards to the nature and provision of care policies and services, and the terms and conditions of care work.
With the global demand for domestic workers likely to grow, the International Labour Organization steps up action to ensure they have access to decent work.
Participate to the October 29th, International Day of Care and Support campaign.
Address gender stereotypes and seek solutions to redistribute unpaid care and domestic work.
Globally, the responsibility of providing care falls overwhelmingly on women and girls, who spend more than twice as many hours as men on unpaid care and domestic work. On Tuesday October 29th, International Day of Care and Support; Let's take the opportunity to address gender stereotypes and seek solutions to redistribute unpaid care and domestic work.
Care work and care jobs for the future of work.
The ILO report Care work and care jobs for the future of decent work takes a comprehensive look at unpaid and paid care work and its relationship with the changing world of work. A key focus of this report is the persistent gender inequalities in households and the labour market, which are inextricably linked with care work. These gender inequalities must be overcome to make care work decent and to ensure a future of decent work for both women and men.
Read the full report
Statement of UN Women on the occasion of the International Day of Care and Support 2024.
If women’s unpaid work were assigned a monetary value, it would exceed 40 per cent of GDP in some countries. Globally, women and girls spend more than 2.5 times as many hours a day on unpaid care work than men. This disparity prevents women and girls from fully realizing their rights and opportunities, throughout their lives. Women and girls remain the default providers of poorly paid and unpaid care work everywhere, and the most marginalized women – those who live in poverty, migrant women, women in informal work, and women from minority groups – shoulder the largest share of unpaid care work. An estimated 80 per cent of paid domestic workers worldwide are women.
The world needs to confront the serious disconnect between what is essential for societies and economies to thrive, what is counted, and what is prioritized in budgets and policies. This is a fundamental human rights issue, and one of the biggest drivers of gender inequality and poverty.
When we invest in comprehensive care systems, we are investing in women, communities, societies and economies. This can simultaneously reduce women’s time and income poverty, enhance their labour market participation and increase the number of decent care jobs, potentially creating almost 300 million jobs by 2035.
Today, in the second time that the world commemorates the International Day of Care and Support, we celebrate efforts being made across the world, from Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Panama recently passing laws establishing National Care Systems, to Kenya using the data of its first national Time Use Survey to inform the development of its national care policy. We welcome the Philippines’ Caregivers Welfare Act that upholds the rights of caregivers; Spain’s approval of a strategy for a new model of long-term care in the community; and Canada’s work with provincial, territorial, and Indigenous partners to provide a high-quality, affordable, flexible, and inclusive early learning and child care system, with new investments totalling up to $30 billion over five years.
Today, we call for bold actions that transform care systems. We rally behind the Human Rights Council’s call for the centrality of care and support from a human rights perspective and the Economic and Social Council’s emphasis on promoting care and support systems for social development.
Engaging through multi-partner and multistakeholder platforms such as the Global Alliance of Care or the Generation Equality Action Coalitions we can support innovation, experience sharing and achieve greater impact.
As we approach the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, with its resounding recognition that equal is greater, let us all commit to action to transform care systems. Let us commit to the end of undervalued and gendered division of care work and instead build thriving, equitable and sustainable economies and societies for today and tomorrow.
When we invest in comprehensive care systems, we are investing in women, communities, societies and economies.
Care: A critical investment for gender equality and the rights of women and girls.
October 29th, International Day of Care and Support 2024. UN-WOMEN
Transforming Care Systems: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in the context of Beijing+30.
The theme for this year’s International Day of Care and Support (29 October) is, “Transforming Care Systems: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in the context of Beijing+30”.
Everyone needs care. It is the often invisible and mostly unpaid work that sustains families, communities, and economies.
The responsibility of providing care falls overwhelmingly on women and girls, who spend more than twice as many hours as men on unpaid care and domestic work. As a result, they miss out on education, paid work, self-care, and more.
Women also do most of paid care work, but lack basic social security, work long hours for low wages. Two-thirds of all workers in the care sector—including healthcare, childcare, and domestic work—are women.
Investing in care can fuel economies, while reducing women’s poverty and potentially creating 300 million jobs by 2035.
Transforming care systems is an imperative for achieving gender equality and fulfilling the vision of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. It starts with recognizing and valuing care and domestic work, increasing national budgets for equitable and quality public care services, and redistributing unpaid care work.
Investing in care can potentially create 300 million jobs by 2035.
Data source: Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2024; Facts and Figures, UN Women
Globally, women and girls spend over 2.5 times more hours per day on unpaid care work than men.
Data source: Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2024; Facts and Figures, UN Women.
Two-thirds of all workers in the care sector are women.
Data source: Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2024; Facts and Figures, UN Women
More attention is needed on how countries better prepare to care for those most vulnerable.
Countries worldwide are often described according to one of four income groupings. These are: low; low-middle; upper-middle; and high (2). Whilst this offers an insight into the level of a country’s development, it does not always give us the whole picture. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (3) and the corresponding 2030 Agenda highlight the many dimensions that make people’s lives more fulfilling, more prosperous and more inclusive. As populations around the world begin to age, more attention is needed on how countries better prepare to care for those most vulnerable and in particular, our elderly, our disabled and our marginalised. This starts with our carers.
But delivering care is only part of the solution, and support for people in need, today should also encompass preventive care, healthy ageing, early intervention technologies, nutritional guidelines and social protection system, or what is often referred to as ‘cradle-to-grave,’ care.
Take action to promote the rights of caregivers, care workers and those receiving care and support.
This International Day of Care and Support seeks to foreground care and support as a cornerstone of sustainable development and accelerator for gender equality. It will allow all stakeholders to make, renew or enhance their commitment and take action to promote the rights of caregivers, care workers and those receiving care and support. Please save the date and register to join our event.