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About The Fifth Wave

The Fifth Wave is a think-and-act-tank dedicated to building a future of fair, valued and collective caregiving. Around the world, across just one generation, many women no longer tolerate bearing the same one-sided domestic burdens as their mothers. Many men now actively seek to integrate fatherhood in their professional and personal trajectories. The Covid-19 crisis laid bare how vital paid and unpaid care work is to the functioning of our societies, yet how little we value it. The pandemic also made starker than ever the exhausted state of our health and social care systems. Finally, worldwide socio-demographic shifts are prompting institutions to consider new, creative ways to better support families and caregivers, foster intergenerational exchange, and build spaces more conducive to community life. The Fifth Wave seeks to accompany this ‘care transition’ everywhere by equipping civil society actors, researchers and policymakers with the knowledge, network and resources they need to effect tangible change. We all care, and are all cared for. Some more than others: care is at once one of the most universal yet most unequally distributed of human activities. The Fifth Wave aims to be a global platform connecting the different threads of the care transition to envision ambitious and holistic solutions for a more caring future.

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