Webinar: The Invisible Woman

Start: 2020-10-27 17:00:00 UTC Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00)

End: 2020-10-27 19:00:00 UTC Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00)

This is a virtual event

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The work women do is mostly underpaid, always undervalued, and frequently invisible. That won’t change till we change the way we value women’s contributions, paid or unpaid. Our society values what we count and measure. Advocates for a Caring Economy insist we count and value how caring makes the world go around.

Riane Eisler (feminist ROCK STAR and Caring Economy enthusiast who wrote The Chalice and the Blade and The Real Wealth of Nations) will connect the links between the invisibility of care work, women’s discounted paychecks for care work, and what the pandemic has helped us see more clearly: all our work at home we’re expected to do for free. Khara Jabola-Carolus of Hawaii’s Commission on Women will report on her state’s The Feminist Post-Covid Economic Recovery Plan). Artist Patti Maciecz has created an invoice for all that invisible work and value. She calls it “Bill the Patriarchy”, part of her Invisible Labor Union. Martha Collins from the Milwaukee area food bank will bring the perspective of single moms who are doing it all, and often facing poverty.

Registrants will receive short introductory materials and be asked to send a short question in response. After our conversation we’ll offer chances to discuss what you learned and the work you’re doing, what questions you have and what’s connected to where you live. We’ll ask you to evaluate the event and ask for conversations YOU’d like to see in 2021. Registration will bring access to website resources for learning more.

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