Women perform 76% of all unpaid household and care work — not because of love alone, but because of a system designed to keep that labour invisible and free. This piece examines the staggering economic reality behind that number, why no other category of worker is expected to operate under the same terms, and what it means to finally call unpaid women’s work what it is: the largest unacknowledged labour subsidy in history.
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