Achieving Women’s Economic Empowerment: Innovative Models to Addressing Unpaid Care Work
Event Summary
A CSW68 Side Event focusing on unpaid care work's critical role in the achievement of economic empowerment, especially for women.
Event Details
This CSW68 side event addresses the persistent challenges hindering the achievement of SDGs, particularly SDG5 and SDG8, with a focus on unpaid care work’s critical role in the achievement of economic empowerment, especially for women. Women shoulder disproportionate care work responsibilities, which leads to time and asset poverty limiting their economic empowerment and public leadership opportunities as well as access to social protection services. Panelists, including SATHI, a grassroots organization in Bangladesh, the Government of Canada, UNWOMEN, the Republic of Senegal, World Renew, ACT Alliance, and OCIC will share insights, best practices, youth perspectives, and lessons learned from implementing women’s economic empowerment programs and policy directions that can accelerate the achievement of gender equality and poverty eradication.
The side event will explore innovative grassroots-led structures such as People’s Institutions (PIs) as tools for social transformation, economic empowerment and political mobilization.
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Fatou Diane
Minister of Women, Family, and Child Protection, Senegal
Sharon Armstrong
Director General of Gender Equality, Global Affairs Canada
