Unpaid care work and women's human rights 2013, para. 16
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Not only do women living in poverty perform the lion's share of unpaid care work, they also stay poor because they do so. Dedication to unpaid care work and resulting scarcity of time have significant financial and opportunity costs that perpetuate poverty among women.
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Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights