Journal article

Breastfeeding and infant care as ‘sexed’ care work: reconsideration of the three Rs to enable women’s rights, economic empowerment, nutrition and health (Gribble KD, Smith JP, et al. Frontiers in Public Health. 2023)

11 Oct 23
Topic(s): Breastfeeding, Research
Location: East Asia Pacific, Global
Language(s): English
Audience: Media, Policy makers and legislators, Program designers and implementers, Public
Organization: Alive & Thrive
Programs: Policy advocacy, Strategic use of data

The "Three Rs" framework aims to achieve gender equality by recognizing, reducing, and redistributing women's care and domestic work. However, breastfeeding is a unique form of care work that should not be reduced and cannot be directly redistributed to fathers or others. To support gender equality, a new paper, co-authored by Alive & Thrive, recommends that initiatives assess their impact on women's ability to breastfeed and include breastfeeding in national productivity measures while redistributing non-sexed care work and the cost of breastfeeding from women to society at large.

 
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