Validating women's work

Revaluing women's work

Description

Validating women's work involves recognizing, measuring, and valuing the full range of contributions women make in both paid and unpaid roles. This strategy addresses the systemic undervaluation and invisibility of women’s labor by implementing equitable pay, formal recognition, and inclusion in economic statistics and decision-making. Practical actions include policy reforms, awareness campaigns, and institutional changes to ensure women’s work is acknowledged, fairly compensated, and integrated into social and economic development frameworks.

Claim

Some 35% of households in the world are now headed by women. Despite this the man is considered the head of the family while the woman brings up the children and her professional activity is considered incidental.