Valuing Care Work

Published: Tuesday, December 31, 2002

Do we have a right to care? Why should women's unpaid caring work be valued? What implications are there for women if their caring work is not valued? What can be done to value caring work?

In recent years, the debate on women's caring work has been more about divisions between different groups of women than about solutions to assist the majority of women with caring responsibilities. Instead, women in employment have been pitted against women in the home, women with young children against those without children. What has not been recognised is that most women at some stage in their lives will have caring responsibilities, be they for young children, elderly parents, relatives with disabilities, partners with chronic illnesses. This issue of valuing caring work is one that potentially affects all of us.

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