Topic: 2024-Unpaid Care and Domestic Work
Country: Guyana
Delegate Name: Michael Fuger
Most unpaid jobs are performed by women and this can decrease their potential to find work and earn wages later in life. Performing domestic work and unpaid care takes up a lot of time and this can reduce the number of girls in school as well as the number of women who obtain degrees. Unpaid care and domestic work can account for large portions of a country’s GDP.
In Guyana, there is insufficient evidence that large amounts of unpaid work is affecting women getting paid jobs in the workforce. There is also evidence that shows that more girls go to school than boys and girls regularly get higher grades than boys. Employers are also required to pay their employees under the Prevention of Discrimination Act.
Guyana believes that compulsory education as well as making it illegal to not pay workers is a good solution to this problem and countries should be recommended to implement these.
