Cluster 23 of 28. Ideas 436 to 450
The women who are not working
The mechanism
The single largest unused asset in the country is sitting at home, and the reasons are practical, not attitude.
The 15 ideas
- 436Childcare co-operatives run by mothers for mothers, licensed and inspected, in every town
- 437After-school clubs at the schools, paid by the parents, run by teachers who want the income
- 438Women-only transport services for the night shifts and the early trains
- 439Home-based work platforms that pay properly: sewing, bookkeeping, transcription, design
- 440Shared workspaces for women with childcare attached, in Colombo and the district towns
- 441Women's craft co-operatives with a single brand and a single buyer abroad
- 442Breastfeeding rooms and creches sold to the factories as a service, since the law asks for them
- 443Elder-care services so that the daughter can work instead of nursing the parent alone
- 444Women's business networks with a loan fund, run the way Grameen Bank does it, not on charity
- 445Return-to-work programmes that firms pay for, bringing women back after the children
- 446Safety-audit services for workplaces, with a public rating
- 447Women-led export businesses in this list given the first slot at the shared trade-fair stand
- 448Girls' coding and engineering clubs in the districts, since the boys already have them
- 449Menstrual-product manufacturing at a price a schoolgirl can afford, which keeps her in school
- 450A published ranking of employers by female participation and pay, compiled by anyone with a spreadsheet