http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06nnqq9 Woman’s Hour this week had a section dedicated to Swedish mothers who are refusing to work the double day in work and at home. These women are staying at home and living off sick pay in order to take care of their children and to get a little respite from the mental exhaustion that 70,000 women…

From 2,000 caring institutions – hospitals, schools, social services, housing, have been encroached upon by an expanding police force. Becka Seglow Hudson writes on the replacement of care with neglect, violence, and discipline in the Camden New Journal

“The campaign for a living wage has taken off internationally led by cleaners, McDonald’s employees, caretakers, hospital and other workers. But will mothers and other carers be included or will we continue to be treated as ‘workless’ scroungers?” http://www.redpepper.org.uk/blog/

“While the 1% more than doubled their income in the last 10 years and the arms trade has risen by 22%, 1 billion children worldwide live in poverty, 3.7m in the UK and 176,565 surviving on food banks.” The Global Women Strike discuss the deepening sexism of austerity and the market. Do we value women’s work?

‘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…