Global Women’s Strike is an international multiracial grassroots network campaigning for recognition and payment for all caring work for people and planet - a Care Income. It's co-ordinated by the International Wages for Housework Campaign which was launched by Selma James in 1972 >>>

Selma James is an antisexist, antiracist campaigner. In 1972 she put forward Wages for Housework (WFH) as a demand and a political perspective that redefined the working class. The International WFH Campaign she founded coordinates the Global Women’s Strike. She coined the word “unwaged,” which incorporates all workers without wages. She co-authored the classic The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community and is the author of Sex, Race and Class and other pathbreaking writing. Learn more

The Global Women’s Strike and Women of Colour GWS, which have campaigned for financial recognition for unwaged caring work for decadescontributed to the Green New Deal for Europe and jointly called on governments everywhere to provide a Care Income, starting now. As mothers, carers, farmers/farm workers, land and human rights’ defenders, women do most of the work of feeding (starting with breastfeeding) and protecting families and communities, the soil and the environment. Learn more

Wages for Housework begins with those of us with least power internationally – unwaged workers in the home (mothers, housewives, domestic workers denied pay), and unwaged workers on the land and in the community.

Wages for Housework is a demand, it is also a perspective, a way of organising from the bottom up, of autonomous sectors working together to end the power relations among us. Learn more

Book Launch: Wages for Housework – The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise.

By Global Women's Strike | 4th February 2025

A fascinating new book by Emily Callaci about the history of the International Wages for Housework Campaign is being launched in the UK next week (US launch to follow). Wages for Housework The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise features WFH founder Selma James (who turns 95 this year), co-ordinates the Global Women’s…

Save the date: 24 October: International Women’s Strike Actions

By Global Women's Strike | 30th September 2024

Spread the word – Women are rising A Week of Actions When women stop, everything stops. On 24 October 2024, women and allies from around the world will participate in the Global Women’s Strike, commemorating the historic 1975 Icelandic women’s strike, where women halted their unwaged and waged work in the home and outside, in…

Wages for Housework Campaign in major exhibition – Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights

By Global Women's Strike | 12th September 2024

‘Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights’ at the Wellcome Collection (London) explores “the profound impact of physical work on health and the body. It delves into the stories of underrepresented workers and their rights within precarious and unsafe labour environments. From protests to healing practices, the exhibition unveils hidden histories of resistance and collective action.…

Event: London Land Justice Fair, 21 July, 12-6pm

By Global Women's Strike | 3rd July 2024

We’ll be running a stall, and a workshop on land use in the women-led natural farming movement in Andhra Pradesh, India. All welcome!

Webinar : What Mothers and Other Caregivers Want – findings from international survey, May 11

By Global Women's Strike | 7th May 2024

From March 2022 to May 2023, this survey asked 1065 mothers and other caregivers from different generations and in different countries what they want and need.  Assumptions are always being made about this, but in fact caregivers are rarely directly asked about how we spend our time, the resources we have or don’t have, or…

About the Global Women's Strike >>>

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About us: We are an international grassroots network campaigning for recognition and payment for all caring work, in the home and on the land...

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Our international community: There are Global Women's Strike groups in India, Ireland, Peru, Thailand, UK, US (Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco) and we work with people in many other countries.

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Our collective power: We are part of a global collective of a number of autonomous organisations within the Global Women’s Strike.  Each has its own constituency and campaigns, each can count on the collective power of all.

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Resources and ways to join with us: Antiracism, anti-discrimination and the justice work we do for ourselves and with others are at the heart of our campaigning.

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Our recent news >>>

Wed 19 March: Stefania Barca, Book Club “Workers of the Earth” 6pm. Zoom Link

By Global Women's Strike | 19th March 2025

Stefania Barca’s talk with London Mining Network will be on-line via zoom (see link below).  It will be a hybrid format so you can also take part in person, by joining on zoom at Crossroads Women’s Centre.  All welcome.  This exciting book includes a chapter on WFH’s organising against “nuclear housework” and the UK’s nuclear…

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Visit Wages For Housework & English Collective of Prostitutes in major exhibition ‘Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights’

By Global Women's Strike | 4th March 2025

Wages for Housework Campaign & English Collective of Prostitutes in major exhibition Dear Friends,  As part of International Women’s Week celebrations, we’re planning a group visit to see ‘Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights’ at the Wellcome Collection (183 Euston Road London NW1 2BE) on Sunday 9 March at 1pm.  If you would like to join us,…

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Book Launch: Wages for Housework – The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise.

By Global Women's Strike | 4th February 2025

A fascinating new book by Emily Callaci about the history of the International Wages for Housework Campaign is being launched in the UK next week (US launch to follow). Wages for Housework The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise features WFH founder Selma James (who turns 95 this year), co-ordinates the Global Women’s…

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Ann Snitow Prize Ceremony honoring Margaret Prescod, Tuesday 10 December

By Global Women's Strike | 4th December 2024

Margaret Prescod, Women of Color/Global Women’s Strike and co-coordinator of Global Women’s Strike in the US, is being honored with the Ann Snitow Prize next Tuesday, December 10. Please join us in celebrating this important acknowledgement and hear more from Margaret, by registering for the award ceremony starting at 3pm US Pacific / 4pm Mountain / 5pm Central / 6pm Eastern / 11pm UK.

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Event: London Mining Network on Just Transition

By Global Women's Strike | 28th November 2024

We are speaking at this conference, Saturday 30 November 2.45pm, Bernie Grant Centre, Tottenham N15 4RX. Women are central to a Just Transition,  resisting mining, corporate greed, and the state/military interests that back them.  GWS will talk about what we’ve learned working with women in farming and mining communities in Thailand, and in India.

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Thailand letter – Urgent Observation Request: Protection of WHRDs and Children at P-Move Peaceful Assembly

By Global Women's Strike | 21st October 2024

Dear Excellency, I hope this email finds you well. On October 14th, 2024, Protection International and P-Move organized a seminar at the P-Move protest site titled “From Global Forums to the Hearts of the Poor: Thailand’s Role in Human Rights and Justice,” following Thailand’s recent election to the UN Human Rights Council. The seminar aimed…

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Save the date: 24 October: International Women’s Strike Actions

By Global Women's Strike | 30th September 2024

Spread the word – Women are rising A Week of Actions When women stop, everything stops. On 24 October 2024, women and allies from around the world will participate in the Global Women’s Strike, commemorating the historic 1975 Icelandic women’s strike, where women halted their unwaged and waged work in the home and outside, in…

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Wages for Housework Campaign in major exhibition – Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights

By Global Women's Strike | 12th September 2024

‘Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights’ at the Wellcome Collection (London) explores “the profound impact of physical work on health and the body. It delves into the stories of underrepresented workers and their rights within precarious and unsafe labour environments. From protests to healing practices, the exhibition unveils hidden histories of resistance and collective action.…

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Why we support Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Farming: a grassroots rebuttal by Nina López and Selma James

By Global Women's Strike | 5th September 2024

In June 2024, the Global Women’s Strike was invited to speak at two sessions on A Care Income to Protect the Land, the People and the Natural World at the International Degrowth Conference in Pontevedra. At the second session, Swati Renduchintala presented via zoom on Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) and the women’s Self-Help…

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