Care economy
The care society prioritizes the sustainability of life, linking care for people and for the planet. It can help to reverse social and gender inequalities in synergy with the environmental dimension and economic development. It helps to reduce the precariousness of care work and highlights the multiplier effects of the care economy.
Activities
Festival de Datos 2023
The Festival de Datos takes place in Punta del Este, from November 7-9, 2023, bringing together more than 400 delegates from governments, multilateral...
XV Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean
The fifteenth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean was held in Buenos Aires from 7 to 11 November 2022.
The burden of unpaid care work on Caribbean women in the time of COVID-19
Side event as part of the Sixty-first meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean
Panel: Women's autonomy and the care economy in the framework of a transformative and sustainable recovery with equality
The crisis caused by the COVID-19 virus has accentuated the structural challenges of gender inequality and has generated a setback of more than a deca...
News
International Day of Care and Support 2026: ECLAC Calls for Accelerating the Achievement of Substantive Gender Equality and the Care Society
On the International Day of Care and Support, ECLAC highlights that moving towards substantive gender equality and the care society is an indispensabl...
Five Things You Should Know about the Sixth Session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Participate in the debates using the hashtags #VIConferenciaPoblaciónALC and #VIConferencePopulationLAC.
Concrete Actions are Needed to Implement the Tlatelolco Commitment on Gender Equality and the Care Society
Women’s Affairs Ministers and other high-level authorities from the region are participating in the Sixty-Seventh Meeting of the Presiding Officers of...
The Challenges of Ageing Demand that We Move Towards a Care Society
By José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC.