Women and girls around the world devote 12.5 billion hours every day to unpaid care work: the daily tasks of looking after other people, cooking, cleaning, bathing, buying food, washing, laying out and storing clothes, and many others.
We all need care in order to exist.
This work is essential for people's well-being and for the functioning of the economy, and would amount to a contribution of at least 10.8 trillion dollars a year to the global economy. That's more than three times the value of the world's technology industry. However, this is an invisible and undervalued work. 75% of the world's unpaid care work is done by women.
Find out more in the "Time to Care" report
“Care and affection”, photo by Kamila Camillo for the exhibition Faveladas, which brought together photos of the daily lives of women living in the Favela da Maré, in Rio de Janeiro.
"I woke up at 7 o'clock with my children talking. I left the bed and went to get some water. The women were already at the tap. The cans were lined up."
Carolina Maria de Jesus
In her book “Quarto de Despejo: Diário de uma Favelada” (Eviction Room: a favelada’s diary), published in 1960, Carolina Maria de Jesus describes her life as a paper picker and inhabitant of the favela do Canindé, in the North Zone of São Paulo.
Carol Santos is the coordinator of the Inclusivass Feminist Movement and a member of the National Front of Women with Disabilities:
A survivor of an attempted feminicide* that left her paraplegic, she is dedicated to combat the violence against women. The film "Carol" tells her story and shows the challenges she faces as a wheelchair-bound woman moving around the city.
*Feminicide is the word used to define the murder of women committed because of their gender, i.e. when the victim is killed because she is a woman, and is directly related to domestic and family violence.
