In recent days, there is a debate about nursing work in various public forums. In such discussions, women are often placed at the center. Nursing and caring work is a human need that anyone can and should do, but since history, this responsibility has been imposed especially on women.

With the rise of patriarchy, caregiving was interpreted as women's 'natural' role to control women's mobility and confine them to the home. Social roles constructed in this way served as a strategy to keep women apart from social, political and economic life . In addition, the caste-based division of labor confined the Dalit community to more risky and less desirable nursing professions. This profession was created as less respected on the basis of caste. 

but irony! Such historical, gender, and racial contexts are often neglected in today's debates about caregiving. The current debate seems to be influenced by a market-centric and protectionist approach. Instead of challenging the reproduction of structural inequality, the risks of workers involved in care work and the challenge of market supply have been the main topic of debate . But until there is a structural change in the interpretation and approach of existing labor on the basis of caste, class and gender, will the concerns of the workers involved in nursing work be addressed?

Care work refers to all forms of physical and emotional labor to meet the needs of a person . For example: children, elderly, sick or disabled people, nursing, cleaning, cooking, washing dishes, washing clothes and other domestic labor etc. This work can be both paid and unpaid and it plays an essential role in advancing personal and social life . Such works are conducted in both domestic and commercial environments. Although these jobs are important labor that contributes to the economic system, these jobs are not properly valued in the current economic and social structure.

Currently, the neoliberal capitalist market system has made women participate in the labor market outside the home for their own profit. However, this system never digs into the underlying causes of discrimination on the basis of labour. Therefore, the caring labor required for the reproduction of the working class is still based on traditional gender roles. Whether this labor is provided by the woman in her own home without pay or in other's home or outside somewhere with pay . Its character has not changed much .

Despite participating in the labor market outside the home, there is no significant reduction in the role of women in the home. That is, the double burden of care and domestic work carried by them remains.

At this time, although there is a debate about the value and recognition of nursing labor worldwide, there is not enough discussion about the physical, mental and social health status of working women involved in this labor. Feminist analysis sees this situation as a meeting point between patriarchal structures and the capitalist labor system, where women's labor remains invisible, unpaid, or limited to low wages . According to a statistic, it is estimated that there are about 200,000 domestic workers in Nepal, most of whom are women.

According to the Labor Force Survey 2074/75, about 73 thousand Nepalis are employed as domestic helpers in private homes, of which 88 percent are women. By limiting care work to informality, these workers are deprived of labor protection . Domestic workers provide essential services to run a household, but most work at risk of violence and discrimination based on class, race, ethnicity or gender. Even while contributing to the society and economy and providing essential services, they have to be repeatedly excluded from legal and social security . In most countries, the household is not recognized as a formal workplace, due to which domestic workers are not formally recognized as workers.  Some data from the

survey shows that women who have gone abroad as domestic workers are doing nursing work in exploitative conditions. Professor of political geography Dr. According to Ayushman Bhagat, Nepali women workers who leave through unauthorized means are not in the government records. Instead of protecting its citizens unconditionally, the government of Nepal is neglecting them . Such a strategy of the state is adding a challenge to the security of Nepali women working as domestic workers in the international labor market.

According to a data from the Women's Rehabilitation Center (OREC), women involved in domestic work are the most victims of violence. In 2081, 42 percent of the 911 cases of domestic violence involved women working as caregivers in their own homes.