{"id":451,"date":"2021-05-06T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.hanken.fi\/sustainability-unwrapped\/?p=451"},"modified":"2021-05-20T10:52:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T08:52:45","slug":"from-the-economy-of-work-to-the-care-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hanken.fi\/sustainability-unwrapped\/2021\/05\/06\/from-the-economy-of-work-to-the-care-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"From the economy of work to the care economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What would the world look like if women and men shared care equally?\u202fHow do families and their situations sometimes \u2018fall between two stools\u2019 when they don\u2019t fit the \u2018norm\u2019?\u202f And how can their situation be addressed and improved? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unpaid work is often referred to as care work outside of employment, meaning caring for children and other kin, but also other kinds of household work that often is invisible and not acknowledged as a vital part of society. The social relations of care, home and work constitute very fundamental aspects of gender relations in society. The Nordic system (with their own variations) relies on a relatively wide range of state-level policies for reconciling work with care, such as relatively generous family leaves and public day care for children, enabling and expecting both women and men to take part in paid employment. Globally many economic, social and political discriminations and inequalities are founded upon inequalities around gender, care and work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The inequalities, in terms of opportunities and the position of women and men in the labor market, remain a sad reality in many countries. For example, the increase in working hours for women doesn\u2019t automatically mean more balanced sharing of domestic and caregiving work between women and men. Women who enter the workforce are struggling to find solutions between the responsibilities at home and at work. In addition, care work of the ageing population across the world often falls upon the shoulders of women and girls.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this episode Charlotta Niemist\u00f6, <\/strong>GODESS institute Director at Hanken School of Economics invites Jeff Hearn<\/strong> Professor Emeritus and Research Director at GODESS Institute, Hanken School of Economics, Nikki van der Gaag<\/strong>, <\/strong>an <\/strong>independent gender consultant and Senior Fellow from Instituto Promundo and Anna Moring<\/strong> from Monimuotoiset perheet (Diverse families) to discuss the deeply rooted divisions of paid and unpaid work and its effects, such as the gendered and aged phenomenon around social sustainability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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