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Why care work should be everyone’s business
In Kenya, women often spend hours daily caring for children, the elderly, and the sick, limiting their participation in the workforce and business growth.
Conversations around women’s economic empowerment often spotlight access to capital, job creation and education. Yet, one of the most pervasive barriers remains largely unacknowledged: unpaid care and domestic work.
Across Africa, particularly in Kenya, this form of labour is the invisible engine of both households and economies, shouldered predominantly by women and girls.
