I fell asleep watching Hulu's #BostonStrangler (starring Keira Knightley, et al). I'm seeing more of the cast now who are amazing and a great ensemble and foil for Knightley's role as a woman who daringly strikes out as an investigative reporter in a male-dominated field. The best is the husband who doesn't want her to be bored at home. Um, yes! Love it. Well, I was at home, but sometimes that builds an expectation of being there in perpetuity----rough.

#movie #WomensWork #KeiraKnightley

Excellent analysis of being a female doctor.

I hadn't thought of it in terms of "mothering" and taking on the extra unpaid load but - it's so true!!!

#MedMastodon
#WomensWork
#HerStory

https://www.theage.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/i-m-a-gp-ted-lasso-s-comments-to-his-therapist-are-where-the-comedy-stops-20230315-p5cs6w.html

Woodcut emblem showing the harvesting and spinning of silk. Madrid, 1612. #womenswork

Emotional Labour in Female-Centric Workplaces | Journey to Diversity Workplaces j2dw.co/3dr8uQ2 #J2DW #Women #Labour #EmotionalLabour #WomensWork #HamOnt #onpoli #cdnpoli @cdnpoli

I have a bit of a rant about the #sexism, #misogyny, #exclusion of #WomensWork in historic official forms, and hope that it's improved a LOT: https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2023/01/28/words-matter-systemic-exclusion-of-women-and-their-work/

And, as Folbre points out, care workers are disproportionately female - as are the workers who leave the waged workforce to work for free providing care to their family members. Unpaid #WomensWork is badly accounted for in tradition economics, which gives politicians cover for inaction as women are forced out of the labor market by failures in the care economy.

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Wanna talk #WomensWork for a moment? Watch any video on how to make #lace by hand. Imagine doing it, or try to do it. Recognize that it was not so long ago that every scrap of lace that existed in the world was made by someone's hands, and how much needlework still is (looking at you #crochet!)
Now be willing to pay accordingly.

* women worked much harder than men, and contributed most labour to their families.
* gender balance in workload occurs when men relocate to women's households for marriage. https://theconversation.com/women-work-harder-than-men-our-anthropological-study-reveals-why-196826?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton #UnpaidWork #GenderAnalysis #WomensWork

The economic power of women in the Medieval North Atlantic cloth trade.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/viking-textiles-show-women-had-tremendous-power/
#weaving #womenswork #archaeology

An article that gives me a bit of new perspective and maybe even compassion to my own childhood holiday celebrations.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jan/02/why-christmas-and-diwali-hanukkah-and-eid-are-cancelled-women-unpaid-care?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
#TheGuardian #WomensWork

Did weaving and dyeing woolen fabric give them greater autonomy and authority within their communities? #Crete #WomensWork

Research questions: what were the lives of ‘regular’ women in Bronze Age Crete? #Crete #Women #GenderJustice #WomensWork

Watching men realize c sections are performed while the mother is awake is way better than trying to force people to realize the vast majority of domestic workers are being underpaid and frankly exploited. #womenswork

Hi yous. Here's an #introduction as I make my way over from @janineutell@twitter.com (still there too).

I'm Janine Utell (she/her), a #writer of #books about #narrative, #biography, #gender, #womenswork. Scholar of #modernism. Program manager for #professionaldevelopment for folks in #languages and #literature at the MLA. #Supercommuter. #Cat lady.

Here is a picture of my tiny panther Phyllis. #catsofmastodon

#womenswork

RT @heidirgardner@twitter.com

For those of us being asked to give unpaid talks for International Women’s Day...

https://scienceonapostcard.com/product/steminist-collection-please-do-not-try-to-empower-me-just-pay-me-enamel-pin-badge/

#InternationalWomensDay #WomenInSTEM #WomensWork

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/heidirgardner/status/1363474295146635264

It is not exactly new story and I am not sure if this made the rounds in fediverse but a few days ago #archiveofourown won the hugo award on best related work. We have a huge #FLOSS community here but we don't talk nearly enough about this project.

#ao3 is an unique opensourced project that is not male dominated and also not started by people who were fulltime engineers but fans who decided enough is enough and we need to own our servers.

Congrats to Ao3!

#fandom #womenswork