100 US dollar banknotes.(The picture from=unsplash) |
[Asia News Agency=조날드 타파난 특파원] Even gathering all the wealth of the 4.6 billion poorest people in the world is still not enough to offset the wealth of 2,153 billionaires in 2019. This is what the global movement Oxfam has found.
Meanwhile, unpaid care work for women is expected to reach $ 10.8 trillion a year. “This great divide is based on a flawed and sexist economic system that values the wealth of the privileged few, mostly men, more than the billions of hours of the most essential work - the unpaid and underpaid care work done primarily by women and girls around the world, ”they said.
According to Oxfam India CEO Amitabh Behar, there are women in India called Buchu Devi and they spend 16 to 17 hours each day collecting water, cooking, and caring for children.
They proposed increasing the tax on the rich and allocating funds to the national care system to resolve the unequal responsibilities for the care work that women are supposed to perform.