Wages for Housework Campaign
Press release: March 8, Int’l Survey Asks Mothers and other Caregivers What They Want and Need
CONTACT: Peggy O’Mara 505-699-3909 Nina Lopez 44 20 7482 2496 wmsurvey@gmail.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE International Survey Asks Mothers and other CaregiversWhat They Want and Need On Tuesday March 8, 2022, International Women’s Day, the Global Women’s Strike (GWS) will launch an international survey, “What Do Mothers and Caregivers Want?” This event opens a year of…
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Press Statement: Child Tax Credits – Campaigners see our work bearing fruit, press for more
Press Statement re Child Tax Credits issued by the Wages for Housework Campaign which coordinates the Global Women’s Strike Child Tax Credits – children need it, mothers have earned it. Our international women’s network, which has been campaigning for nearly 50 years for payments for the vital unwaged caring work that mainly women do, welcomes…
Read MoreJacobin: The Senate Just Took a Baby Step Toward the Feminist Goal of a Universal Child Benefit
BY LIZA FEATHERSTONE On International Women’s Day, the good news is that the new COVID-19 relief bill will include a kind-of, sort-of universal child benefit — a policy that feminists have long called for. But the overly complicated, burdensome way the policy is implemented means that on this issue, the Left still has its work…
Read MoreEvent: Selma James speaking at Wages for Housework symposium
Dear friends, Please see below the e-poster for the Symposium “Debates For And Against Wages For Housework”, being held on-line, 4-6 March. Selma will be speaking on Saturday 6 March, 9-11am UK time (14.30-16.30 IST).Registration link is here. Details of the full programme for the three days are in the attached pdf. Please share and…
Read MoreStatement: Remembering Maureen Colquhoun (1928-2021) with love and gratitude
The Wages for Housework Campaign, Queer Strike & the English Collective of Prostitutes For more information contact: 0207 482 2496 or gws@globalwomenstrike.net We were upset to hear of the passing of Maureen Colquhoun. Many of us who knew her and had worked with her really loved her. She had no airs and graces though she…
Read MoreBBC: Vanessa Bryant, her mother’s lawsuit and the value of childcare
By Ashitha NageshBBC NewsPublished2 days agoShare Vanessa Bryant, wife of the late basketball star Kobe Bryant, has found herself at the centre of a torrid domestic drama, within a year of the death of her husband and daughter. She is being sued by her mother. In the lawsuit Sofia Laine argues that she should be…
Read MoreWash Post op ed agrees with the Wages for Housework Campaign!
Please see this Washington Post op ed, Yes. Balancing work and parenting is impossible. Here’s the data, which mentions the Wages for Housework Campaign, links to the Global Women’s Strike and calls for what we have been advocating for decades. A two-parent family chronicled balancing waged work and caregiving work for their children during lockdown and found: “The…
Read MoreThere is more than one pandemic. In response to the health, climate, poverty and war crises, we call for a Care Income Now!
The coronavirus pandemic comes on top of the climate pandemic, the poverty pandemic and the war pandemics which have hit single mother families, ill, disabled and older people hardest. It is exposing weaknesses in our ability to resist and survive physically and financially – from immune systems already compromised by poverty, pollution, war, occupation and displacement…
Read MoreEvent: Webinar From Coronavirus and Beyond Valuing Caregiving — the Unwaged Work that Protects People and the Environment.
Date And Time Fri, March 20, 2020 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT Description Invitation to a Webinar From Coronavirus and Beyond Valuing Caregiving — the Unwaged Work that Protects People and the Environment. The workshop we planned for the 64th UN Commission on the Status of Women has even more urgency now as the global pandemic has…
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