5Rs of Unpaid and Paid Care Work in Barbados

This UN Women feature video captures focus group discussions on “Recognising, Reducing, Redistributing Unpaid Care Work and Rewarding and Representing Paid Care Work in Barbados” under Joint SDG Fund Project ‘Integrated Population Data and Policy Solutions to Accelerate SDGs Achievement in Barbados and Montserrat’.

Participants representing mothers, fathers, people living with disabilities, retired people, members of the faith-based community and youth shared their experience with unpaid care work and feedback on what policies, programmes, and services are needed to address the challenges.

Care work is ever-present in all our lives. It can be paid or unpaid. Paid care work includes work done by domestic workers, and paid workers at hospitals, long-term care facilities, homes for the elderly. Unpaid care work is caring work that is done without remuneration, most often provided by household and family members such as childcare, domestic chores, shopping, paying bills, pet care, elderly care, etc.