India, June 25 -- Women and girls spend 2.5 times more hours on unpaid care work than men.

Around 708 million working-age women are outside the labour market because of unpaid care responsibilities.

UN Women says investment in care services could create nearly 300 million decent jobs by 2035.

The agency is urging governments and businesses to treat care systems as essential economic and social infrastructure.

Investing in care systems could create millions of jobs, strengthen economies and reduce the unequal burden of unpaid work on women and girls, UN Women has said.

The United Nations agency said care work, both paid and unpaid, was the "invisible foundation" of economies and societies, but remained undervalued and unequally shared...