Webinar on ‘Building a More Caring World: Implications for the family’

22 JULY 2023   

This overall webinar series focuses on the importance of care in sustaining life and developing human capabilities and the processes of societal transformation that would be necessary to recentre the values of care to our social and economic lives. In this particular webinar, we focus on the close relationship between the systemic devaluation of care and the history of patriarchy. Care work has been devalued due to its association with the household which is considered part of the feminine private domain as opposed to the masculine public domain where work is recognized and remunerated. The revaluation of care thus cannot be achieved without decoupling it from patriarchal gender norms. One important space in which this would need to begin would be the family, the primary space where both caring needs are addressed and gender constructs are formed, acted out, and enforced.

The challenge the webinar seeks to address is how families can not just promote the equality of the sexes as a lived reality but also contribute to building a society where care and service are highly valued for their seminal role in creating the most conducive environment for individual and social progress.

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