2021: Creating a Lexicon of Future

W is for #womenswork

Let me go on record stating that I think “women’s work” is an archaic misnomer, it shouldn’t be gendered. It’s all the work that’s done in the home that’s undervalued, invisible and essential to quality of life.

It is the work that is both invisible and essential to our quality of life. It’s been categorized as soft skills or emotional labor, and, as such, is often uncompensated.

The missing piece for a complex thriving regenerative future in the current funding model is the ability to provide access to capital to businesses that root deeply, the businesses that support the community at the ground level. Remember, the ‘last mile’, which is the place that many big ideas stop, is the ‘first mile’ when you’re looking up from the ground. This is where women do their work.~ Picking up the Thread to the Invisible Web of Women’s Work That Weaves the Fabric of Community

Unpaid labor — what the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development defines as time spent doing routine housework, shopping for necessary household goods, child care, tending to the elderly and other household or non-household members, and other unpaid activities related to household maintenance — remains largely invisible to economists.

It isn’t a part of G.D.P. calculations and…