Unpaid Care Work Quotes

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

The entire issue is that women bear a disproportionate share of the hard work. Birthing, carrying, the whole thing - it's hard work.

Mother's Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path.

Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.

Despite media stereotypes, the majority of women who go on welfare did not choose to. They have been abandoned by the men to whom they have entrusted their economic well-being.

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

Mothers suffer in the workplace. That fact is by now so painfully familiar it even has a name: the motherhood penalty.

Why can't there be an acknowledgment that, in some instances, women remove themselves from the workforce for a long time, and when they come back, of course they're not going to get exactly equal pay?

Women take much the biggest proportion of work in terms of home and childcare. Societally we need a culture change. It's still the case that expectations are different for men and women.

If I care for an elderly relative without payment, it is not work, is not counted in national income, and, as it is not labour, is not counted as work. Should my neighbour pay me to do precisely the same tasks, it would contribute to economic growth.