Women’s Work | The Point Magazine
In our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it,” the late anthropologist and activist David Graeber wrote, in 2018.
Jia Tolentino • Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion?
Many mothers look for part-time and flexible work so that they can manage all of this extra unpaid work, but only 10 per cent of jobs are advertised as part-time, with just 1 in 4 jobs specifying any type of flexible working,9 so many women are forced to work in jobs that are well below their skill level. On top of this, part-time work is paid at a
... See moreJoeli Brearley • The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career
The division between home and work remains paramount to the system we live under.
Angela Garbes • Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
The insincerity, the rampant performativity, the illusion of urgency, the obsession with constructing futures at the expense of the present – for better or worse, these are all things I associate with being a technologist. And when I speak to my technologist friends, most of them share the same inkling that something is amiss .
Far too many of us g... See more
Far too many of us g... See more