Overview
In so many homes and places around the world, women of all ages, ethnicities, cultures and backgrounds are providing essential care to others, within and outside their own families, to sustain health, well-being and comfort. While men also contribute, available data show that the overwhelming proportion of care workers worldwide is women, and increasingly they are migrant women.
As women’s economic empowerment builds, lives are being transformed, including decisions made to travel from their own homes, families and communities to earn a living. In the destination…
