Experts from around the world gathered in Barcelona this week to participate in Time Use Week 2023. This conference, focused on exchanging experiences regarding the world's progress in developing time-related policies, serves as a platform for panels, forums, discussions, and workshops that analyze the possibilities and challenges for the future in building a society that recognizes and guarantees the right to time.
During this event, Laura Tami Leal, the Deputy Secrecretary of Corporate Management at Bogotá's Secretariat for Women Affairs, shared city's experience in implementing the Care System as a policy through which the City Administration works to help women overcome time poverty caused by the burden of unpaid caregiving work.
"It's an honor for Bogotá to share its experience at the Time Use Week. We are the first city in Latin America to implement a Care System to recognize, reduce, and redistribute the burden of unpaid caregiving work. Our work is pioneering in the region and primarily aims to close gender gaps, enable women to break free from time poverty, regain their economic autonomy, and pursue their life projects," highlighted the Undersecretary.
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With the creation of the Care System and the implementation of Care Blocks and Care Buses, Bogotá is working as never before on the implementation of time-related policies. In the City Administration, we understand that people have the right to leisure time of high quality. Therefore, we are relieving women of caregiving duties and providing them with time and services that contribute to their full development.
This is the second time that Bogotá has participated in the Barcelona Time Use Week, an initiative that also promotes the Local and Regional Time Agenda, in which Care Blocks were included as a good practice in time-related policies, making it the only Latin American experience to be incorporated.
This year, the theme of Time Use Week is 'Towards a New Time Balance,' and they will address topics such as time for caregiving, work, rest, and leisure.
In this regard, Undersecretary Laura Tami Leal will engage in discussions with representatives from the Diputación de Barcelona and experts from Bolzano, Barcelona, and the Valle de Aburrá (Antioquia, Colombia).
