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Senegal Care Economies in Context Team Biography
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The Care Economies in Context Senegal team works out of the Regional Consortium for Research in Generational Economics (CREG), a research center focusing on generational economics in varied socio-economic contexts across numerous African countries. The team is lead by Latif Dramani. To read more about the Senegal team researchers, click here.
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Care Economy in Context: An interview with the Senegal Team
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| In an interview, the Care Economies in Context project team in Senegal answers questions addressing the work they have done on the project, the major issues they see facing Senegal’s care economy, and the kinds of change they would like to see. They also describe the barriers that exist, and the hopes they have for economic modeling. |
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This time-use study done in 2021 details the gendered division of unpaid and paid work in Senegalese households. One key finding from the study shows that while men spent an average of 4.2 hours a day doing paid work and 2 hours a day doing unpaid work, women experience a reverse in this ratio. Women spend only 1.9 hours a day doing paid work compared to 5 hours spent on unpaid work. The study goes on to further explore the gendered division of labour revealed by the time-use survey.
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Developments within Senegal’s Care Sector
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Innovative solutions to recognize, reduce, and redistribute the unpaid care work of rural women in Senegal
Globally, women perform over 75 % of unpaid care work. This limits the time that they can invest in income-generating activities, and therefore their opportunities for economic empowerment.
Recognizing, reducing and redistributing unpaid care and domestic work through a more equitable distribution of responsibilities within the household and in communities, the provision of appropriate public services, and the establishment of social protection policies and infrastructure is critical to facilitates women’s contributions to the national economy and to achieve the 2030 Agenda. Read more.
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Policy implications of work on long term care in Senegal
The aging of world populations is a reality, and the number of people aged 60 and over continues to increase. According to the United Nations, the population of people aged 60 and over worldwide will reach 2 billion by 2050. 80% of this group is expected to be living in low-income countries. In Senegal, older persons represent about 6% of the general population. According to a 2006 forecast by the ministry of health and medical prevention, this proportion is expected to increase to 9% in 2028 and further to 17% in 2050. Read more
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Integrating unpaid care needs in local development plans in Senegal
In Senegal, women devote daily, on average, 4 hours and 9 minutes to housework and childcare, compared to 30 minutes for men. More than two-thirds of working Senegalese women are concentrated in the agricultural sector in rural regions, where access to regular basic services such as energy, water, and sanitation is limited and where productive and reproductive activities overlap and compound women’s time poverty. Read more.
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