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- Title
If caring begins at home, who cares for the carers? Introducing the Global Care Policy Index.
- Authors
Paul, Anju Mary; Haolie, Jiang; Chen, Cynthia
- Abstract
Despite attempts to bring the plight of domestic care providers to the attention of policymakers, there continues to be inadequate regulatory protections for unpaid family caregivers and paid domestic workers. This article introduces the Global Care Policy Index (GCPI), an original scoring system for care‐policy comparisons. The GCPI aims to achieve two objectives: first, to systematically assess how states' domestic‐care provider protections match up to International Labour Organization policy benchmarks, and second, to incentivise states to improve their policy protections for care providers in the domestic sphere by harnessing their competitive instincts to improve their GCPI score. This article outlines the design and methodology behind the index's construction and reports the findings from the pilot phase of the project where 29 countries' care‐provider policy protections were scored. The pilot highlighted key gaps in policy protections for both unpaid family caregivers and paid domestic workers and outlined areas where carework scholars and activists can focus their efforts. In this manner, the GCPI offers a quantitative assessment of a country's care‐provider protections, allowing for fast and direct care‐policy comparisons between countries in the same region or with the same developmental status.
- Subjects
INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation; CAREGIVERS; HOUSEHOLD employees; PILOT projects
- Publication
Global Policy, 2022, Vol 13, Issue 5, p640
- ISSN
1758-5880
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1758-5899.13116