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Highlighting the “invisible” work women do

By Caron Lindsay | Fri 8th March 2019 - 1:31 pm

This #IWD I’m on childcare duty. I do compressed hours in my paid role so I can cover have Friday ‘off’ to cover my childcare. So today will be made up of scrubbing the hoose, doing the messages and keeping four kids fed, happy and alive. #MakingWorkVisible #IWD2019

— Joanna Barrett (@Joanna_Barrett) March 8, 2019

One of the features of International Women’s Day over the past few years has been Scottish feminist organisation Engender’s Make Work Visible campaign to highlight the work that women do that really makes the world work but that isn’t recognised.

Not only do women work at their jobs, they often have another full shift to do at home looking after children, or parents, doing the housework, organising stuff. Actually, quite often they do the emotional labour in their offices too, keeping the peace, remembering birthdays, supporting colleagues under stress, organising social events, that sort of thing.

This video from 2014 explains it some more.

Here are some of the highlights so far:

https://twitter.com/VonnSand/status/1103918142089191427

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Posted in News | Also tagged engender and international women's day 2019 | 3 Comments

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