{"id":4801,"date":"2021-05-14T11:32:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T11:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=4801"},"modified":"2021-05-14T11:32:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T11:32:40","slug":"the-pandemic-highlights-the-social-relevance-of-the-care-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2021\/05\/14\/the-pandemic-highlights-the-social-relevance-of-the-care-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pandemic Highlights the Social Relevance of the Care Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/latinamericanpost.com\/36422-the-pandemic-highlights-the-social-relevance-of-the-care-economy\">https:\/\/latinamericanpost.com\/36422-the-pandemic-highlights-the-social-relevance-of-the-care-economy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Headed by Alicia Barcena, the economic commission for latin america and the caribbean (ECLAC) has stated in a recent report the concern of the socioeconomic problems women are facing as the result of the pandemic and the economic devastation it has caused. The pandemic has increased levels of poverty and gender inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean. Being forced to work remotely through quarantine affected the female labor force greatly and caused thousands of women to abandon the labor market because of domestic duties. 56.9% of women in Latin America and 54.3% in the Caribbean work in the industries that have been hit hardest by the pandemic, those industries include tourism, manufacturing, commerce, and domestic work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hopefully this situation forces the region to do some self reflection on the gender inequality in the work place, and more importantly, balances the unpaid work for women in Latin America and the Caribbean. Unemployment among women in the region reached 22%, and participation in the labor market decreased from 52% to 46%. This resulted in an estimated 118 million women living in poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean. As we start making our way out of this pandemic, these vital industries need to re-open not just because women are suffering greatly, but because the economy is as well.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I believe this situation has much to do with the pandemic, but also a lot do with the state of most Latin American economies, and the lack of labor unions in these countries. At the end of every economic crisis like this, geopolitical restructuring must take place, and for this situation it needs to be in the form of foreign policy and trade agreements with other countries, preferably superpowers like the US. The root of this problem starts with fixing their economy, and it will take many years for them to do it on their own, but by being smart with their foreign support this fix is a lot closer than it seems. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link: https:\/\/latinamericanpost.com\/36422-the-pandemic-highlights-the-social-relevance-of-the-care-economy Headed by Alicia Barcena, the economic commission for latin america and the caribbean (ECLAC) has stated in a recent report the concern of the socioeconomic problems women are facing as the result of the pandemic and the economic devastation it has caused. The pandemic has increased levels of poverty and gender inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2021\/05\/14\/the-pandemic-highlights-the-social-relevance-of-the-care-economy\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4802,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions\/4802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}