CWW Collaborates with Care Work and the Economy Project
Researchers from CWW will join the 2018 annual meeting of the Care Work and the Economy Project (CWE-GAM) in Berlin, Germany in October 21-23, 2018.
Researchers from CWW, including Principal Investigator Gretchen Donehower, Project Coordinator Morné Oosthuizen, and CWW Ghana research team leader Professor Eugenia Amporfu will join the 2018 annual meeting of the Care Work and the Economy Project (CWE-GAM) in Berlin, Germany in October 21-23, 2018.
The CWE-GAM project has three main aims:
To develop innovative tools to measure and model care,
To develop gender-aware macromodels (GAM) that integrate gender and care work into the applied economic tools at the heart of economic policymaking, and
To rethink macroeconomic models so that they include gender and unpaid care work as essential elements of understanding economies in a more complete way for more accurate understanding and policy analysis.
Given CWW’s focus on measurement as well as our global reach, collaboration with CWE-GAM is a natural fit. Donehower, Oosthuizen, and Amporfu will attend the meetings, provide feedback on project plans and outputs, and discuss possibilities for further collaboration in the future.
Click below to learn more at the project website:
CWW Takes Part in G20 Task Force on Gender Economic Equity
Counting Women's Work collaborated with a task force on Gender Economic Equity to make sure that discussions of women’s economic empowerment included evidence from both the market and household economies.
While Argentina holds the Presidency of the G20, or “Group of Twenty,” Argentinian officials and researchers have been coordinating several task forces to ensure that a diverse set of issues and viewpoints are represented in the talks. They call this effort the “Think 20” or “T20” group of task forces and the list of all topics appears here.
Counting Women’s Work was invited to be part of the task force on Gender Economic Equality and the project was represented by Mexico CWW team leader Estela Rivero Fuentes. Dr. Rivero Fuentes used CWW research to highlight the role of unpaid care work in creating gender inequality in access to market labor force opportunities. In addition, she was a contributing author to the Task Force’s volume on Gender Economic Equity: An Imperative for the G20. This represents one of the highest-level policy interactions for CWW.
After a meeting of the task force in September 2018, the T20 produced a comprehensive document that covers the current empirical reality of gendered economies around the world, as well as a set of specific policy recommendations that will be presented during the G20 summit in Buenos Aires in November 2018. This will be the first G20 summit held in South America.
CWW Colombia interviewed
Team members of Counting Women’s Work Colombia discussed their work on UN Radio, an online radio for the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Team members of Counting Women’s Work Colombia discussed their work on UN Radio, an online radio for the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Listen here.
CWW Research in Second National Transfer Accounts project Bulletin
This issue of the NTA Bulletin summarizes policy messages from Counting Women’s Work, highlighting how including unpaid care work in policy analysis creates better policy and emphasizing the need for more and better data on time use and unpaid care work.
Counting Women's Work was created in part to bring a gender perspective to the National Transfer Accounts (NTA) project, which produces a series of short bulletins showcasing project results and significance for policy. CWW research has been the focus of two bulletins, the second published in March 2018. NTA Bulletin No. 13. reveals the vast amount of economic activity that is “invisible” because unpaid care work not usually counted as part of the economy despite its central role in producing the market labor force of the future and sustaining social welfare. The bulletin argues for the necessity of more and better data on time use and unpaid care work to improve many economic, family, and social policy.
Download NTA Bulletin No. 13 from the NTA website.
Symposium on Gender Gaps in National Transfer Accounts and National Time Transfer Accounts
Counting Women's Work collaborated with a task force on Gender Economic Equity to make sure that discussions of women’s economic empowerment included evidence from both the market and household economies.
Researchers, representatives from international organizations, members of the government of Colombia, media, students, and other interested parties met in Bogotá, Colombia on February 28, 2018 to share results from NTA and CWW researchers and learn about the challenges and concerns of various stakeholders around issues of inequality and transfers of money and time.
The event was organized by the CWW Colombia team including Dr. B. Piedad Urdinola, of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Bogotá, and Dr. Jorge A. Tovar of the Universidad de los Andes-Bogotá, and featured their research on Colombia as well as cross-country comparative work from other CWW researchers, and personnel of the United Nations, and of Colombian universities and government representatives.
The event was sponsored by the United Nations Population Fund, the Departamento Nacional de Planeación of Colombia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Universidad los Andes, National Transfers Accounts, and Counting Women’s Work.
Click the links below to access video of the presentation and discussions:
Presentation slides for each speaker can be accessed below:
Alejandra Corchuelo (download)
Public interest in CWW Costa Rica research
The University of Costa Rica TV Program "Espectro" interviewed CWW Costa Rica team leader Pamela Jiménez Fontana about unpaid work in Costa Rica and other topics covered by National Transfer Accounts and National Time Transfer Accounts.
The University of Costa Rica TV Program "Espectro" interviewed CWW Costa Rica team leader Pamela Jiménez Fontana about unpaid work in Costa Rica and other topics covered by National Transfer Accounts and National Time Transfer Accounts. The video also includes a discussion with the Minister of Women's Affairs.
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