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Unpaid Care Work: Impact Recommendation Report, Erin Jemison, Susan R. Madsen
Unpaid Care Work: Impact Recommendation Report, Erin Jemison, Susan R. Madsen
Marketing and Strategy Faculty Publications
Participants: Anne Burkholder (YWCA Utah), Renata Forste (BYU), Julie de Azevedo Hanks (therapist, researcher), Danny Harris (AARP), Erin Holmes (BYU), Erin Jemison (YWCA Utah), Susan Madsen (UWLP, UVU), Robbyn Scribner (UWLP, UVU), LaDawn Stoddard (UServeUtah), Becky Utz (University of Utah)
Unpaid Care Work Among Utah Women, Susan R. Madsen, Robbyn T. Scribner
Unpaid Care Work Among Utah Women, Susan R. Madsen, Robbyn T. Scribner
Marketing and Strategy Faculty Publications
Unpaid work, including childcare, eldercare, housework, and other tasks, is vitally important to the creation of strong families, communities, and nations; in fact, such domestic work has been called “the work that makes all other work possible.” According to the McKinsey Global Institute, the monetary value of women’s unpaid work is estimated to be $10 trillion each year, and women worldwide spend a significantly larger portion of their time than men performing this critical work. This happens for many reasons, including personal values and choices, cultural and social norms, unconscious biases, and specific economic and employment considerations. The global average …