Jordan has enacted a number of care policies into legislation that addresses the expansion of early childhood care and education, the provision of stronger care systems for the elderly, and the reform of care leave policies. However, there have been concerns raised by activists about the efficacy of current care policies in relation to the disproportionate amount of time that women in Jordan spend on care work.
Gender inequalities in unpaid care work and the labor force are interconnected. In order to increase women’s participation in the workforce, inequalities in unpaid care work must be “tackled through the effective recognition, reduction, and redistribution of unpaid care work between families and the State.” The State can allocate resources to reduce and redistribute unpaid care services in the form of money, services, and time through care policies. Such care policies include the direct provision of childcare and eldercare services, care-related social protection transfers and benefits distributed to workers who have care responsibilities, and labor regulations such as leave policies and “other family-friendly working arrangements, which enable a better balance between paid employment and unpaid care work.”
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