Bogotá Launches 'Care Revolution' Because Women Demanded A Lunch Break

KEY POINTS

•Bogotá estimates that women provide over 35 billion unpaid care work hours annually, disproportionately impacting them.
•A community-centered 'care revolution' is underway in Bogotá, focusing on caregivers’ needs rather than just their labor.
•Journalist Rachel Cohen Booth visited Bogotá to report on the city’s novel approach to valuing unpaid caregiving.
•Alongside this story, Vox covers topics like malaria resistance, podcast brain effects, and weight-loss drug worries.

In Bogotá, Colombia, where unpaid care work gobbles up a staggering 35 billion hours annually, mostly from women who apparently organized a mass PTA meeting of their own to demand better care for caregivers. Enter the 'care revolution'—a neighborhood-level uprising where the focus shifts from unpaid labor ninja moves to actually centering the caregivers themselves, as if shouting 'Hey, you're people too!' Rachel Cohen Booth bravely traveled there to uncover what happens when a city decides to stop ignoring the human boilers behind dishwashers and diaper runs. Meanwhile elsewhere: malaria drug resistance is still a thing, and Ozempic users freak out over shrinking muscle instead of shrinking waistlines. It's 2025, and the world’s still trying to figure out how to adult properly.