Wages for Housework Campaign
Nadja News: Ten times women’s unpaid care work was recognised in history.
Cooking, cleaning, gathering food and water, and caring for children and the elderly are vital for families and societies. Yet this work, performed by women 75% of the time, has seldom been given the recognition it deserves, creating huge inequality around the world. Here are ten times unpaid care work has been recognised for what it…
Read MoreUpcoming Event : Resistance Exhibition – Day of Workshops and Talks – Saturday 12 November.
Event organised by Stonehenge Heritage Action Group, Global Women’s Strike and Resistance Exhibition Address : Black Door, Soho Studios, 17-19 Archer Street, London, W1D 7, United Kingdom. ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐: ๐๐๐: ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐๐’๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐: ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐.๐๐๐๐: ‘๐ฒ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐’ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐: ๐น๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐น๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐! ๐ท๐๐๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ fellow ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐๐๐ค๐๐ซ๐ฌ: ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ก:…
Read MoreIslington Tribute: Itโs 50 years since the Wages for Housework campaign was launched. Angela Cobbinah asks how far it has come
Waging war Itโs 50 years since the Wages for Housework campaign was launched. Angela Cobbinah asks how far it has come Thursday, 11th August โ By Angela Cobbinah Womenโs Centre premises in Kingโs Cross in the 1970s IT is some time in the mid-1970s and a pensioner is stopped in a London street by a BBC…
Read MoreFri 22 & 29 July: Brazil & Venezuela films
Celebrate Wages for Housework’s 50th anniversary with three great films at Crossroads Women’s Centre London!
Read MoreWages for Housework: 50 years of campaigning โ The Global Women’s Strike experience event
The Global Womenโs Strike ExperienceโPart 1 When: Saturday 28 May, 2-4pm, in person Where: Bishopsgate Institute, London EC2M 4QH Speakers: CRISSIE AMISS, UK: Global Women Against Deportation (GWAD), Women Against Rape, Women of Colour Global Womenโs Strike (GWS) CHARLOTTE LEE, Singapore/UK: International Prostitutes Collective, GWS LIZ HILTON, Australia/Thailand: Empower, Community Women Human Rights Defenders Collective,…
Read MoreArchitectural Review magazine looks at collective action and references Crossroads Women…
The Collective Body by Lola Olufemi. https://www.architectural-review.com/magazines/ar-1489
Read MoreSpecial offer on these brilliant books via the Crossroads online bookshop.
www.crossroadsbooksonline.net OUR TIME IS NOW: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet. A Selection of Writings by Selma James: From Wages for Housework to a Care Income (1977-2020), Introduction Margaret Prescod, Editor Nina Lopez.ย PM Press, 2021. ย ยฃ13.00 โSelma James is a force of nature in the flesh and on the page. She…
Read MoreWages for Housework: 50 years of campaigning – archives moving forward by looking back
Photos from the launch of the archives 27 March 2022:
Read MoreVideo: Wages for Housework: 50 years of campaigning โ Empowering Women: A Care Income for People and Planet
Watch the webinar here: https://www.facebook.com/GlobalWomensStrike/videos/389912809261517 Empowering caregivers is advanced as a strategy against poverty and for climate justice. This webinar showcases international efforts from the 1995 UN Beijing conference decision to measure and value unremunerated work in the home, on the land and in the community, to the Wages for Housework Campaign which spearheaded the…
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