In this episode, Eva tells Emma about the 1970's "Wages for Housework" movement, an international campaign calling for housework and care work to be compensated. They discuss the movement's radical grassroots origins, different feminist perspectives on the gendered division of labour, and the legacy of the movement in today's working and home life. Digressions include conversations about training squirrels and cleaning up roommate's beard hair. 

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Reading List:

Wendy Edmond, All Work and No Pay : women, housework, and the wages due

Silvia Federici, Wages Against Housework

Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work For Mother 

Louise Toupin, The History of Wages for Housework

Gender difference in housework stats 

Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Women and the Subversion of the Community

image: poster from the See Red Women's Workshop