Rapid care analysis as a Qualitative research tool to explore unpaid care work: Experience from char area in Bangladesh

Rapid care analysis as a Qualitative research tool to explore unpaid care work: Experience from char area in Bangladesh

Every day unpaid care work is carried out all over the world and it is necessary for a society’s wellbeing. However, unpaid care work is largely ignored by economic and social public policy initiatives. Neither is it adequately valued in economic terms. In developing countries like Bangladesh, most...

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主要作者: Khondaker, Sahida Islam
格式: Working Paper
语言:en_US
出版: BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) 2022
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Bangladesh
public policy
unpaid care work
在线阅读:http://hdl.handle.net/10361/15843
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spelling 10361-158432022-01-09T21:01:48Z Rapid care analysis as a Qualitative research tool to explore unpaid care work: Experience from char area in Bangladesh Khondaker, Sahida Islam Bangladesh public policy unpaid care work Every day unpaid care work is carried out all over the world and it is necessary for a society’s wellbeing. However, unpaid care work is largely ignored by economic and social public policy initiatives. Neither is it adequately valued in economic terms. In developing countries like Bangladesh, most research on unpaid care work is dominated by quantitative research methodologies that generally cannot capture how people actually experience unpaid work on a daily basis. Moreover, they neglect the arena of perceptions of unpaid work. Qualitative participatory approaches allow people to identify the extent to which unpaid work-related problems affect their communities, encourage people to assess the causes and consequences of inequitable distribution of care work and facilitate the identification of interventions from the perspectives of women and men, rather than policymakers or scholars. This paper attempts to describe and analyze the Rapid Care Analysis (RCA) as a qualitative method to study unpaid care work and establish that compared to quantitative methods, RCA as a qualitative method can capture the unequal distribution of care work in the community, measure time uses, create awareness and also find out available services, infrastructure and options to reduce and redistribute care work more comprehensively. From different RCA exercises, it is observed that both male and female participants have understood the notion of heavy and unequal care work. Through the exercise, participants recognized care work as work. Participants also came up with some solution to reduce care work. Quantitative methods cannot provide these insights. Therefore, RCA could be one of the best tools for conducting research on care work. 2022-01-09T06:34:20Z 2022-01-09T06:34:20Z 2019 2019-06 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/10361/15843 en_US https://bigd.bracu.ac.bd/publications/rapid-care-analysis-as-a-qualitative-research-tool-to-explore-unpaid-care-work-experience-from-char-area-in-bangladesh/ application/pdf BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD)
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topic Bangladesh
public policy
unpaid care work
spellingShingle Bangladesh
public policy
unpaid care work
Khondaker, Sahida Islam
Rapid care analysis as a Qualitative research tool to explore unpaid care work: Experience from char area in Bangladesh
description Every day unpaid care work is carried out all over the world and it is necessary for a society’s wellbeing. However, unpaid care work is largely ignored by economic and social public policy initiatives. Neither is it adequately valued in economic terms. In developing countries like Bangladesh, most research on unpaid care work is dominated by quantitative research methodologies that generally cannot capture how people actually experience unpaid work on a daily basis. Moreover, they neglect the arena of perceptions of unpaid work. Qualitative participatory approaches allow people to identify the extent to which unpaid work-related problems affect their communities, encourage people to assess the causes and consequences of inequitable distribution of care work and facilitate the identification of interventions from the perspectives of women and men, rather than policymakers or scholars. This paper attempts to describe and analyze the Rapid Care Analysis (RCA) as a qualitative method to study unpaid care work and establish that compared to quantitative methods, RCA as a qualitative method can capture the unequal distribution of care work in the community, measure time uses, create awareness and also find out available services, infrastructure and options to reduce and redistribute care work more comprehensively. From different RCA exercises, it is observed that both male and female participants have understood the notion of heavy and unequal care work. Through the exercise, participants recognized care work as work. Participants also came up with some solution to reduce care work. Quantitative methods cannot provide these insights. Therefore, RCA could be one of the best tools for conducting research on care work.
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title Rapid care analysis as a Qualitative research tool to explore unpaid care work: Experience from char area in Bangladesh
title_short Rapid care analysis as a Qualitative research tool to explore unpaid care work: Experience from char area in Bangladesh
title_full Rapid care analysis as a Qualitative research tool to explore unpaid care work: Experience from char area in Bangladesh
title_fullStr Rapid care analysis as a Qualitative research tool to explore unpaid care work: Experience from char area in Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed Rapid care analysis as a Qualitative research tool to explore unpaid care work: Experience from char area in Bangladesh
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