COVID-19 and the Centrality of Care

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Unpaid care work continues to perpetuate gender and intersectional inequalities, affecting women and girls’ social and economic empowerment (ILO, 2018). Although previous economic crises have not triggered radical changes to gender roles (Rubery and Ratterty, 2013), the COVID-19  pandemic has represented a more radical shift in the volume of unpaid household and care work which has had to be reconciled simultaneously with paid employment.

This report includes findings from two distinct but related research  activities. First, a rapid systematic review (RSR) was undertaken on the distribution of unpaid care work during the COVID-19 pandemic and how it has been shaped across gender, social class and ethnicity. Second, to complement the rapid review, couple and individual based qualitative interviews were undertaken to allow for a richer insight into the ‘lived’ realities of households in Scotland.

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