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Resources for the EU-LAC Foundation, May 2026

Germany: The time spent by women alone on unpaid care for relatives increased from 3.22 billion hours in 2020 to 4.3 billion hours in 2021—an increase of around 1.1 billion hours. Calculated in 30-hour jobs, this increase alone corresponds to more than 700,000 jobs. A ten-year analysis shows no change in the distribution of unpaid work between women and men. All political measures have remained ineffective, despite men working less and women earning more. (CloseEconDataGap, 2024): The problem is growing, yet within this economic framework, nothing is changing.

“Care must be placed at the center of development strategies, as it is essential for sustaining life, reducing inequality, and enabling inclusive and sustainable economic growth.” ECLAC (2023), The Care Society

• Discussion paper for the EU-LAC „Long-term care as a lens of structural inequality and a starting point for systemic transformation. Caring Economics and Gender Equality as joint levers for transformation“ >>
• Research Paper „First time-series analysis of the value added by unpaid work between 2012 and 2021“, Germany >>
• Research Paper „The value of unpaid work in terms of time and money in 2022″, Austria >>

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