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Commission on Women lauds P&G for advancing household equality with 8-week paternity leave

Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) lauds Procter & Gamble Philippines on their commitment to promote Equality and Inclusion inside and outside the workplace with their new Share the Care program. In a virtual engagement, PCW and P&G discuss how Share the Care aligns with PCW’s priority initiatives and commitment to ‘Recognize, Reduce, and Redistribute’ domestic obligations to both partners, especially on child-rearing. Even before the pandemic, women and girls globally have already been bearing the greater burden of unpaid care and domestic work. In the Philippines, females spend a disproportionate amount of time on child care, elderly care, and housework, while males spend about twice as much time on paid market work. This advocacy is even more important in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has provided both an added burden and a unique opportunity. The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) estimates that [women’s] unpaid work in the care economy is worth at least 40 USD billion, roughly 20% of the country’s GDP.1