Women. Power. Politics. The Oldest Unpaid Job in the World (Issue 2)

Take a moment, gentle reader, to think about what the global economy actually needs to function. It needs workers. Healthy, fed, educated, emotionally stable human beings who can show up, think, build, trade and produce. Those workers do not arrive ready- made. They are grown. Someone carries them for nine months, endures the physical ordeal of bringing them into the world, and then spends the next two decades preparing them for a world that will demand everything they have. Then those workers enter the economy. And someone still cooks their meals, washes their clothes, manages the household, absorbs their stress after hard days, sits with sick children so they can sleep, and holds the domestic world together so that the professional one can keep moving. That someone, in the overwhelming majority of households globally, is a woman. She is not just producing the labour force. She is maintaining it, around the clock, so that it can keep producing.

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