Peace Mutuuzo
Peace Regis Mutuuzo is a Ugandan politician who serves as the Women representative for Bunyangabu District.[1] She is the Minister of State for Gender and Culture in the Ugandan Cabinet. She was appointed to that position on 6 June 2016.[2] In 2021, she was re elected into the eleventh Uganda Parliament.[3]
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[edit]- Care work is the heartbeat of every society,”
- The care economy is largely gendered, with women shouldering the biggest share of the burden,” she stated. Unpaid care work is estimated to contribute $10.8 trillion to global output annually, approximately 13% of global GDP.
- Deliberate efforts must be instituted to create an appropriate environment to sustain care work and address barriers to its execution
- The patriarchal society in which women continue to be viewed by themselves and others as caregivers, and men as protectors, has continued to undermine and perpetuate inequalities in the provision of care work
- Unpaid care and domestic work is, in effect, a ‘subsidy’ to the business sector, a transfer, or even a ‘gift’ from the institution of the household
- There is a need to make deliberate investments to address issues within the care economy through a multi-sectoral approach