WOMEN WHO TOIL: Unbelievable Stats & Notes on Women's Unpaid Labour.
📷: Instagram. "By the time girls grow up, they are estimated to have provided 160 million more hours daily than boys in unpaid labour"- UNICEF. A woman who has no control over her labour is a woman who has no control of her body, autonomy, time & society. The discourse on women's liberation is viscerally incompletely, in fact, it is irrelevant without addressing issues of unpaid labour because it touches on her autonomy, body and time. People often relegate Gender Based Violence to acts of physical violence, so when I mention unpaid labour as violence against women, it often comes as suprise to some, others said it is not as serious as physical violence. One once told me feminism should not be brought into the home meaning feminism should be silent on issues of unpaid labour. It is crystal clear that society has doggedly refused to admit the steep cost of unpaid labour on women. Society has relegated women to the background where they churn, toil and labour to kee...