Women’s Unpaid Work and the Apocalypse Re-imagined
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by Clarisse Baniqued and Annabs Sanchez
I’ve been thinking about the apocalypse lately. On how it won’t be brought upon by another great flood, an attack by a giant angry lizard, a slew of battle-ready robots, a takeover by vicious alien life, or a hellmouth in a high school.
No, it won’t be because of something as obvious as any of that. It will be because of something more monstrous, more ruthless, more unthinkable – it will be because of the unpaid work of women.
The United Nations says that women work longer hours than men—an average of 30 minutes a day longer in developed countries and 50 minutes in developing countries – when both paid and unpaid work are taken into consideration.
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To fight the gap, women must celebrate diversity
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By Buena Bernal
The literature is vast: gender inequality exists.
Anyone who denies, ignores or lives blind to this reality is helping make matters worse.
Let’s get the facts straight.
New data collated by the Alliance 8.7 and released during the United Nations General Assembly in September 2017 show women and girls account for 71% of the world’s enslaved. They are 99% of forced labor victims in the commercial sex industry and 84% of victims of forced marriages. [1]
Marilee Karl: The wind propelling Isis’ wings
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by Nina Somera
Isis International’s founder Marilee Karl has been given the 2017 Women Have Wings award
There is a boundless energy as she grips the handles and turns to whatever direction she desires. It is her walker that slows her down. Her mobility may have taken the toll of toiling for years, but not her mind and spirit.
At 80, Marilee Karl lives by herself in a Strasbourg apartment, near her daughter Alice and 3 young grand-daughters. Surrounded by the most interesting books among literature lovers and more interestingly, rare materials on Southern feminist movement-building, the voracious and critical reader in her can easily be linked to her solid and uncompromising voice as a story-teller.
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