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CASSIUS SELALA | Recognising care economy key to job creation, women empowerment

Sowetan · · 604 words · By CASSIUS SELALA
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What to know about CASSIUS SELALA

Across the globe, and especially in SA, women carry the invisible burden that sustains societies.

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What happened

Across the globe, and especially in SA, women carry the invisible burden that sustains societies.

Why it matters

Research by UN Women and the International Labour Organisation reveals that.

Common ground

globally, women perform more than three times as much unpaid care work as men.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 3 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “In SA, this imbalance is particularly pronounced. Women, especially in rural and working-class communities, bear many unpaid care responsibilities, which limit their capacity to participate fully in the formal economy.”
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No evidence was found in cross-references, web search results, or Wikipedia entries to confirm or refute the claim about unpaid care responsibilities in South Africa.
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Claim 2: “Research by UN Women and the International Labour Organisation reveals that globally, women perform more than three times as much unpaid care work as men.”
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Wikipedia entries referenced do not mention the specific statistic about unpaid care work (3x disparity between women and men). No direct evidence from cross-references or web search results confirms the claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated on 8 March, commemorating women's fight for equality and liberation along with the women's rights movement. International Women's Day gives focus to issue…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women's_Day
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The International Women's Strike or International Feminist Strike 8-M was a movement that took place on March 8, 2018, International Women's Day. It was organized by feminist movements in support of w…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — International labour law is the body of rules spanning public and private international law which concern the rights and duties of employees, employers, trade unions and governments in regulating work…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_labour_law
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Claim 3: “In SA, the paid care sector accounts for 13.8% of total employment, with women making up about 84% of this workforce.”
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Wikipedia entries about South Africa, its national soccer team, and White South Africans do not mention employment statistics in the paid care sector. No direct evidence confirms the 13.8% or 84% figures.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. Its nine provinces are bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 miles) of coastline that stre…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The South Africa national football team represents South Africa in men's international football and is run by the South African Football Association, the governing body for football in South Africa. N…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — White South Africans are South Africans of European descent. In linguistic, cultural, and historical terms, they are generally divided into the Afrikaans-speaking descendants of the Dutch East India C…
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