Global Women's Strike
Global Women’s Strike is an international multiracial network campaigning for recognition and payment for all caring work for people and planet - a Care Income. It is co-ordinated by the International Wages for Housework Campaign and was launched by Selma James in 1972.
Ham & High: ‘We’ve put caring on the agenda’: Selma James on Wages for Housework campaign
Frankie Lister-Fell0 Published: 3:32 PM March 18, 2022 Selma James outside of the previous Crossroads Women’s Centre – Credit: Archant I meet Selma James at Kentish Town’s Crossroads Women’s Centre on what feels like the first day of Spring. She was described to me as a “force of nature”, and on first impression she is, but a force that…
Press release – Wages for Housework at 50: isn’t it time for a care income?
PRESS RELEASE: Celebrating 50 years of campaigning to put unwaged caring work on the agenda: isn’t it time for a care income? Throughout 2022, the International Wages for Housework Campaign (WFH) is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a programme of events online and in person. They will showcase organising done in different countries, evaluate what…
What Mothers and Other Caregivers Want – an International Survey
For the first time unwaged caregivers in different countries and cultures, and of different genders, will be asked for their views on caregiving, the most important work of society.
Thai Women Human Rights Defenders Collective statement on International Women’s Day
8 March 2022, International Women’s Day #BreaktheNPOLawtoBreaktheBias 111 years ago, women in Russia, the United States of America, Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland banded together to form groups and take to the street. Their organization and struggles have ensured that we are not made to do more than eight hours of waged work a day,…
Women’s organisations internationally must support women in Myanmar
90% of garment workers in Myanmar are women, the primary carers of children and others. Their unions are calling for fashion brands to act urgently and cease all production in Myanmar to weaken the military dictatorship and force it to step down. Over 170 organisations internationally have so far signed our statement in support of…
Boston Review: Care Work in a Wageless World
As the planet burns and pandemics rage, Selma James’s work with the Wages for Housework movement shows that we ignore the labor of care at our own peril. Emily Callaci March 2, 2022 Sex, Race, and Class—The Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings 1952–2011Selma JamesCommon Notions and PM Press, $20 (paper) Our Time is…
URGENT! Tell Congress & the White House to Restore the #ChildTaxCredit Payments Now!
Children are suffering due to Senate inaction! ⚡ Twitterstorm Tuesday March 8, International Women’s Day ⚡ 11am-1pm PT / 2-4pm ETDefend the #ChildTaxCredit The #ChildTaxCredit in the Build Back Better plan helped more than 36 million families with children afford groceries and school supplies, pay bills and make ends meet. It lifted 3.7 million children…
Ham & High: International Women’s Day: Kentish Town charity launches global survey for mothers
Frankie Lister-Fell0Published: 1:59 PM March 1, 2022 Global Women’s Strike at an Extinction Rebellion protest on October 12 2019. – Credit: Crossroads Audiovisual Collective Ahead of International Women’s Day next Tuesday, a charity based at Kentish Town’s pioneering women’s centre, Crossroads, is launching a global survey asking: What do women and carers really want? Global Women’s Strike (GWS), which is…