Breaking point: the struggle to balance care and work
Channel: Institute of Development Studies
Date: 2018-05-23

This story is based on a real woman’s day-to-day experience in Nepal. She is struggling to balance paid work and care work responsibilities and this is having depleting effects it has on her wellbeing, and that of her family. In this film her story has been adapted into a script, anonymised and narrated by an actor. The photos are from the region where she lives but not of the woman herself. 

This story was created for the project ‘Balancing Unpaid Care Work and Paid Work: Successes, Challenges and Lessons for Women’s Economic Empowerment Programmes and Policies’, 2015-2017
http://interactions.eldis.org/economic-empowerment

Credits: 

Voiceover by Kritiuttma Singh 

Photography 

Creative Common license BY 2.0
Young girl washing utensils. Ganespur Co from DFAT photo library (Jim Holmes for AusAID) http://bit.ly/2DH27Cc

Creative Commons license BY 4.0
Various from Institute of Development Studies (Deepta Chopra)
http://interactions.eldis.org/economic-empowerment/policy-findings/case-studies/case-studies-dataset

Creative Common license BY-NC 2.0
Pokhara, Nepal from shinyai
(Shinya ICHINOHE) http://bit.ly/2ERgSC3

Creative Common license BY-NC-ND 2.0
kidney donor 3 from BEE FREE - PGrandicelli [the social bee] http://bit.ly/2ENObpx
Teacher watches as her student points to from World Bank Photo Collection http://bit.ly/2rjrjfs

Music commissioned by Karrot Entertainment

Produced by Elaine Mercer

Funded by IDS, ISST, DFID, IDRC and Hewlett foundation

This video is creative commons licensed BY-NC-ND 4.0