Care services for elder people and their impact on women economic participation
Most of the responsibility for caring for family members, especially children, the elderly and the disabled, falls on the shoulders of women. Providing alternatives to provide care services to family members who need it is one of the means to reduce the burden on women, which allows them to participate in the labor force on the one hand, and on the other hand work in care services can provide job opportunities for women.
This paper is part of a series on the care economy in an attempt to frame the role of the care economy vis-à-vis female labor force participation, while looking at the opportunities from both the supply and demand sides., This paper focuses on elderly care, while the others look at the childcare, and the care for the disables.