unpaid work

Women’s unpaid work contributes $427 billion to Australia’s economy each year, yet it remains officially unrecognised.

A new study of heterosexual couples in Australia and Germany reveals the economic costs to women when their partners work long hours

To First Nations women, ‘care’ is more all-encompassing than traditional definitions. We need a new approach to appreciating, their work.

The latest Financy Women’s Index (FWX), fell 1 point (pt) to 75.5 pts out of 100 over the 2023 calendar year.

For many Australians who spend chunks of their time volunteering, the Census will not ask details about the work they do.

Keeping the financial impacts of the mental load invisible enables this sexist status quo to continue, Chandel Brandimarti writes.

Modest changes to Australia’s paid parental provision can help address the gender gap in unpaid and paid work between mothers and fathers

There’s barely been a blip in the number of mothers “typically” caring for children at home, despite a massive increase in the rate of both mothers and fathers working from home.

ParentsNext compels mothers into makework rather than work and devalues the unpaid caring work they do, writes Elise Klein and Eve Vincent.

If some men are shit (and again, for the avoidance of doubt, I do concede some are), we also have shit systems that preserve men’s privilege

If American women received a minimum wage for the unpaid care work they do around the house, they would have made $1.5 trillion last year.

The consequences of measures taken to address the health and economic crisis are likely to be felt more by women, on a number of fronts.