Caregivers • Normalise listing of caregiving roles on CVs

We often say Singapore is built for families — yet we still expect people to work as if they have no family, and care for their family as if they have no job.

- Simran Toor

This contradiction sits at the heart of why “mother”, “father” and “caregiver” almost never appear on curricula vitae (CVs), even though these roles shape us more profoundly than most job titles.

People do not omit these roles because they inherently lack value. They omit them because workplaces have long treated caregiving as irrelevant, inconvenient or risky. This shapes what we choose to recognise as “real work”.