unpaid work

The irony of International Women’s Day becoming a peak opportunity to extract yet more free labour from women breathtaking. 

Let’s stop the gender wars. Women do not hold the sole responsibility to have children. It takes two to make a baby and it takes a village to raise a child – so why doesn’t government and workplace policy reflect this?

A job ad posted by a 39 year old Silicon Valley CEO and mum of 10 year old twins for a Household Manager / Cook/ Nanny went viral recently.

During a career break you are forced to confront a new identity and through this comes growth, adaptability and continuous learning.

As a married, working mother in Australia Georgie Dent is a walking cliché. In a bid to ease the mental burden she’s trying to ditching the martyr path.

Female breadwinners are likely to earn much less than male breadwinners and continue to be burdened with more housework and childcare than men.

In business, you need to be aware how costly ‘favours’ and speaking for free are. You don’t get paid for being nice, you get paid for doing business. 

In Victoria alone unpaid work is worth $205.58 billion, or the equivalent of 50% of gross state product each year & it’s women doing most of it.

Women doing 72% of unpaid work has egregious outcomes that are totally gendered; Australian males lives ride on the exploitation of women’s work.

I cannot endlessly have coffee with people I hardly know, indiscriminately read manuscripts, research proposals or judge competitions, Jane Caro writes.

Women take on more paid work while shouldering a disproportionate load of housework and this is never more pronounced than at Christmas.

‘Basically my husband and I have the same argument on a four week rotation. It reaches a point where I say ‘I doing everything, you need to do more’.