Caring, nurturing and getting ahead: inequality begins in childhood
Does inequality begin before we can decide about our own lives?
In the second episode of The game of life, TREES' videopodcast and the documentary film directed by Andrés Ruiz Zuluaga, we talk about motherhood, caregiving, teenage pregnancy and the inequalities that begin to mark life from early childhood.
Together with Raquel Bernal, rector of the Universidad de los Andes and an expert in early childhood, and Andrés Moya, director of Seeds of Attachment, Leopoldo Fergusson, co-director of TREES, and Andrés Ruiz Zuluaga reflect on the women who support entire families, the invisible burden of caregiving and how opportunities - or their absence - begin to shape the future from the earliest years of life.
From the stories of The game of life, This episode explores how social inequalities permeate motherhood and parenting: from teenage pregnancy and the absence of support networks, to the economic, emotional and cultural barriers that millions of women face in caring for and raising their children.
The conversation also addresses the role of the first years of life in children's development, how early experiences impact the future and why talking about early childhood is also talking about poverty, gender, violence and social mobility.
In this episode
- Why does inequality start from the earliest years of life?
- Maternity, care and poverty in Colombia
- Teenage pregnancy and inequality traps
- Women who support entire families
- What happens when parenting depends almost exclusively on mothers?
- Early childhood, violence and life opportunities
- How experiences from 0 to 6 years of age shape the future
- The stories behind the inequality data
- The invisible burden of care and gender gaps
- What would have to change in order to grow up in a more equitable country?
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