Thread by @GreenPartyWomen

"The political debate on work cannot afford to ignore these questions any longer.

Greens need to lead the way in placing unpaid, socially useful & often invisible work firmly in its rightful place at the centre of discussions around the future of work."
greeneuropeanjournal.eu/invisible-but-…

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"Throughout history, women have mostly been relegated to unpaid domestic and care work, from cooking and housekeeping to looking after children and ill, elderly, or disabled relatives.

Although men increasingly take on some of this work, the balance is still..."

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"tremendously skewed & we see women taking on waged work while retaining most – if not all – of the domestic and caring responsibilities

When both paid and unpaid work such as household chores and childcare are taken into account, women work an average of 30 minutes a day...

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"longer than men in Global North countries and 50 minutes longer in Global South countries.

While this gap may not seem huge, the fact that the vast majority of men’s working hours are paid, whilst a very significant number of women’s working hours are not, is crucial."

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"Among the many resulting inequalities of less paid work for women is a serious discrepancy in the pensions men and women receive.

In 2014, European women received pensions 40.2 per cent lower than those of men, despite working more hours in total."

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"Bobby Kennedy was right in 1968 when he declared that GDP measures 'everything except that which is worthwhile.'

Our economic model – focused around GDP and growth – fails to recognise the unpaid work without which it would collapse."

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"The post-war ‘golden age’ of Fordism – plentiful jobs, suburban housing, extensive social welfare – was dependent not only on women’s unpaid labour but on the resources & cheap labour of the rest of the world. This idea has apparently yet to permeate progressive politics"

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