Archive for November 2015
Why Don’t We Just Pay a Living Wage to Mothers and Carers?
‘Since Tony Blair called single mothers “workless” we have been treated as worthless, and our benefits have been cut – first one parent benefit, then universal child benefit and income support, the only benefits that recognised mothers were entitled to money from the state while raising their children’ –Nina Lopez Nina Lopez of the Global Women’s…
Read MoreCounting women’s unwaged work: an anti-racist measure
Women Count, Count Women’s Work
Women Celebrate New Recognition of Unpaid Work, Beijing Watch
Governments agree to measure and value unwaged work
Measuring and valuing unwaged work. Women Count, count women’s work
The International Women Count Network, with the support of 1,200 Non-Governmental Organizations worldwide, won these historic decisions at the UN Forth World Conference of Women (Platform for Action, Beijing 1995). They are now being implemented in a number of countries. The International Women Count Network campaigns for governments to measure and value unwaged (“unremunerated” work…
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