Programme for today’s Care Income Now! webinar
Please join us for a webinar exploring the implications of a campaign for a Care Income, North and South,to stop climate change, promote caring work for people and planet, and refuse work that is destructive to the environment and to the worker. Friday April 3, 11am-1pm US Eastern (4pm UK, 10pm Thailand) Pre-registration necessary Register…
Read MoreCARE INCOME NOW! Sign the letter & join webinar
Dear Friends, We write to ask that your organization endorse the Open letter to governments – A Care Income Now! If you are not a member of an organization or are unable to confirm your organization’s endorsement, of course personal endorsements are also welcome. The Open Letter is jointly issued by the Global Women’s Strike,…
Read MoreOpen letter to governments – a Care Income Now!
Bahasa, Burmese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Mandarin, Romanian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Urdu so far. Every day and in every emergency, unwaged or low waged caregivers, urban and rural, mostly women, often immigrant women, struggle to protect and care for people of every age and condition. But this work is kept invisible and therefore there is…
Read MoreWebinar: From Coronavirus and Beyond: Valuing Caregiving — The Unwaged Work that Protects People and the Environment
There 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…
Read MoreLetter: Evidence to the Citizens Assembly, Ireland
From Maggie Ronayne, lecturer at NUI Galway, trade unionist and co-ordinator of the Global Women’s Strike, Ireland. Dear members of the Citizens Assembly, I write representing the Ireland branch of an international women’s network which has been working on the recognition of caring work for decades; as a carer for my mother; as an academic (archaeologist)…
Read MoreThe Independent: I founded the Wages for Housework campaign in 1972 – and women are still working for free
Forget basic income, those who care for people and the planet deserve to be recognised for the unpaid work they already do Selma James 1 day ago 25 comments In 1972, a paper I wrote was discussed at the women’s liberation conference in Manchester. It had six demands: the right to work less; the right…
Read MoreCamden New Journal: Let’s value the work of human survival
Marking International Women’s Day on Sunday, Selma James argues the long-overdue case for a Care Income 06 March, 2020 — By Selma James IT’S almost 50 years since I marched, with thousands of others, behind the women’s liberation banner. Groups formed all over London and the UK, discussing what in our lives we wanted to change. Everything!…
Read MoreGrazia: The Problem Of Invisible Labour – And Why YOU Should Down Tools This International Women’s Day
For International Women’s Day on 8 March, Grazia commissioned an exclusive survey that revealed women are still doing more at home. Writer Sally Howard, whose new book is about all the work women do to keep a household running smoothly, isn’t surprised… BY SALLY HOWARD | POSTED5 HOURS AGO On 8 March 2018, a year into my infant…
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