Counting Women's Work 11/19/18 Counting Women's Work 11/19/18

Infographic, Turkey

CWW infographics summarize the market-based and unpaid care work economy in a country. This post shows the infographic for Turkey.

Counting Women’s Work estimates of the market and unpaid care work economies can be summarized with a series of statistics. CWW produces infographics to show these results. Infographics are available with a dark or light background. The infographic for Turkey is shown below.

All infographics are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Gretchen Donehower 10/25/18 Gretchen Donehower 10/25/18

Older people as unpaid care work producers at HelpAge Asia-Pacific Conference

CWW PI at HelpAge Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, focus on older women as care producers

Gretchen Donehower, PI of CWW, participated remotely in the HelpAge Asia-Pacific Regional Conference in Tehran, I.R. Iran, October 23-25, 2018. The focus of the conference, from the conference website, was "Family, Community and State in Ageing Societies - Demographic ageing is having profound impact on societal dynamics in Asia. The functions of the family, communities and governments are changing rapidly. How they can reinforce each other, and how they relate with longer periods of independence in old age, will need to be re-examined.”

Donehower presented research on time transfers in Asian countries, showing that women produce unpaid care work and transfer it to family and community members until the oldest age groups we observe. This means that aging societies have more productive potential than usually considered. It will take the right policies to enhance this potential and ensure the well-being of older persons and aging societies.

The conference paper can be accessed here.

Average time spent working at each age by type of work and sex, hours per week.

Troy Flowers 7/1/14 Troy Flowers 7/1/14

Asia Training Workshop

The Counting Women's Work training workshop for Asian teams was held at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawai'i, from 14 to 17 July 2014. Asian CWW

The Counting Women's Work training workshop for Asian teams was held at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawai'i, from 14 to 17 July 2014. Asian CWW country teams, as well as other country teams interested in the CWW research, attended, including Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, the Philippines, and Vietnam. Slides used in the workshop are linked below.