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What Changes We've Won! Since the International Wages for Housework Campaign started in 1972 (we’re over 30!) our grassroots movement has taken our demands for recognition and payment for all the unwaged work women do to every level of government in the countries where we are based, and through the European Parliament, the United Nations, and the International Labour Organization. We’ve pressed for money directly in women’s hands – child benefit and other allowances for mothers, welfare, childcare, paid breastfeeding breaks, pay equity, pensions, compensation . . . Our campaigning has won laws to measure and value unwaged work, government resolutions, declarations of support, time use surveys and estimates of the value of unwaged work – $11 trillion a year according to the United Nations! We have fought for women in different countries and situations to benefit from the national and international decisions that we have won – making sure that every victory makes women count everywhere! Women have been able to use these decisions to fight for inheritance and land rights, free healthcare and other resources. To find
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