Our Mission is to transform care work in Africa
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💡Got a solution that will improve the mental, social, and physical wellbeing of parents & caregivers of young children in #SoutheastAsia, #SubSaharanAfrica and #LatinAmerica? The @vanleerfdn #GoodStartChallenge is open – enter by 1pm UTC on 17 Sept! bit.ly/3GEOZSN
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ICYMI: March 12 was #EqualPayDay in the U.S. The #WageGap keeps women in the cycle of poverty, unable to afford basic necessities. If it were eliminated, women would have additional money every year for:
🍼Childcare
🏡Rent
🏥Health insurance
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📢First-of-its kind free online tool designed by nonprofit @MomsFirstUS @reshmasaujani taps generative AI to help new moms & others in New York figure whether they're eligible for paid family leave & guides them through the application process. Learn more: bit.ly/48FdqbI
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📣 Calling all early-career scholars, activists, & policymakers! Join us for the 2nd IAFFE Feminist Economics School in July 2024. Delve into key aspects of feminist economics thinking, methodologies, and policy application.
Travel grants available.
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@KokoroKids is a fun educational app that utilizes game-based learning to enhance early learning for children aged 2-6 years, offering over 200 tailored activities & games that promote emotional & cognitive development. Learn more here: bit.ly/3RH0QmS
@LEGOfoundation
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This is huge & long overdue. "..gender wage gaps used to be explained in part by education and occupation.... But Prof. Goldin's research shows most of the earnings difference is btw men & women in the same jobs and notably, it kicks in after the birth of a woman’s first child."
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.”
#NobelPrize
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Preach.
Historically, much of the gender gap in earnings could be explained by differences in education and occupational choices. However, this year’s economic sciences laureate Claudia Goldin has shown that the bulk of this earnings difference is now between men and women in the same occupation, and that it largely arises with the birth of the first child.
#NobelPrize
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@klbklyn & @sharmadillo’s chapter, “Beyond Underpaid Women and Robots: Towards a Better Future of Care Work,” for our open-access book, delves into the messy and unseemly infrastructure of care.
Read it here: bit.ly/3qAqAFT
@AmsterdamUPress @HarambeeRw
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@TorchitLtd is an Indian startup that's using AI & Machine Learning to design & create cutting-edge #assistivetech solutions that empower persons with disabilities to live dignified, independent & meaningful lives. Learn more here
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Single moms spend less time on household chores than moms with male partners, study finds. Married moms are more inclined to forgo leisure & sleep to do housework possibly due to gender norms & societal expectations for married women to be caregivers.
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Read about Kidogo’s CEO/Co-Founder Sabrina Natasha Habib's presentation at
World Bank 2023 Meeting.
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@WHO rolls out new holistic toolkit to measure #earlychildhooddevelopment. The Global Scales for Early Development will help countries gather & use data to better invest in services and support needed for young children.
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'As a new mom, I reflect a lot on the idea that “it takes a village to raise a child”. Similarly, it will take a village to resolve these issues.'
@SabrinaNHabib on the challenges and solutions for #Childcare in #Kenya. @Kidogo_ECD
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£564.. the amount that women take home less per month than men, according to new @fawcettsociety evidence.
A shocking figure with a host of distressing, personal stories behind it. The gender pay gap issue is complex, but ensuring mothers get promoted is critical to closing it!
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Activists spent over 10 years working on getting early childhood funding on the ballot – Huge congratulations to #CareGuild honoree @Egroginsky and her whole team over in New Mexico on this massive win, making pre-K a universal right! vox.com/policy-and-politics/…
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Working parents crave flexibility - and managers who are parents, particularly women, provide social support in organisations @caringcount #investincare #carework is work
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Normalize caregiving for all people, create policies that support caregivers, offer mental health care - some of the suggestions on how we can reverse the great resignation and support working mothers well done @Forbes @CaringCount forbes.com/sites/hollycorbet…
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Happy mothers day to all moms and mom figures, and for those that have loved and lost mom figures, or who have struggled with motherhood. I love that we celebrate motherhood! But, the facts: the gender pay gap is a motherhood pay gap (1/5) @CaringCount vox.com/2018/2/19/17018380/g…
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A benefit of expanding universal childcare would be a global reduction of 8.6% or almost $527 billion in the gender pay gap greatly benefiting countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin Africa. @CaringCount bit.ly/3w2l3ai
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There are 122M Nigerians of economically active age; of which, roughly 52M currently are not in the national
labor force. Roughly 20% of primary caregivers would rejoin the labor force if affordable childcare services were available @caringcount fraym.io/covid-impact/#downl…