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
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.
ECLAC Calls for Accelerating the Achievement of Substantive Gender Equality and the Care Society on the Occasion of the International Day of Care and ...
On 29 October 2025, the International Day of Care and Support, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2023, will be commemorated. This d...
Care Is the Future: Latin America and the Caribbean Launch the Decade of the Care Society
By Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women; José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC; and Citlalli Hernández Mora, Secretary fo...