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Staggered by the size of the care economy

CEO of AEC Group, Simon Smith, was staggered at the recent findings from the report ‘Counting on Care Work in Australia’. “The unpaid component of the care sector is estimated at 50 per cent of GDP, bigger than the property industry (35- 40 per cent)” he said. “I was...

The Australian Care Economy

The Australian Care Economy Australia has a clear human rights obligation to ALL its families and home environments. eS4W will be actively engaging with the wider Care community, to ensure increased awareness and understanding by both the public, and the media, of the...

The Australian Care Economy

The Australian Care Economy eS4W commissioned the AECGroup to gain quantitative data to support a change in the economic wellbeing of female carers in the Care Economy. eS4W commissioned this study using a similar methodology to the Counting on Care Work study in...
Childcare – affordable and accessible

Childcare – affordable and accessible

Issues Paper Childcare – Affordable & Accessible October 2020 “Women still undertake the ‘lion’s share’ of unpaid care” The more parents of young children access childcare, the greater are the economic and financial benefits to women and to the economy as a...

Gender on the agenda: Women and care

As International Women’s Day is celebrated around the world, economic Security4Women is asking all Australians to consider the contribution of women to ‘the care economy’; to their paid and unpaid work without which we as a nation, as an economy, as communities, as...