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Men Haven't Yet Noticed That a Large Number of Women Are Disgusted by AI

AI-driven work pressures reduce time for care work and intensify emotional strain within families, especially for women.

Arts

fromHyperallergic

3 weeks ago

The Making of a Maintenance Artist

Ukeles’s practice reframes marginal, unpaid, feminine labor as art, using maintenance work to challenge gendered expectations and redefine what counts as labor.

Education

fromwww.theguardian.com

2 months ago

The girls of my Himalayan valley are not victims education is the only bridge they need out of their isolation | Amreen Qadir

Dard Shin women in Tulail valley survive extreme isolation through relentless labor, while their children harbor aspirations for education and professional careers blocked by geographic and infrastructural barriers.

fromwww.theguardian.com

5 months ago

A feminised workplace' doesn't mean what you think it means | Letter

Feminisation in this sense describes the central role played by gender in the transformations of work over the past decades, from the decline of conventionally masculine forms of work in heavy industry to the rise of the service economy and the problematic idea that women's participation in paid labour is a measure of gender equality. This critical use of feminisation makes visible the ways that contemporary capitalism exploits our ideas about gender.

Women

US politics

fromFast Company

6 months ago

For caregivers, Thanksgiving is no break at all

Lack of federal paid family and medical leave forces workers, especially women, to use holiday time for caregiving, harming families, careers, and the economy.