When around 15000 women marched across New York City in 1908 to demand better wages, voting rights, shorter working hours and less sexual harassment in the workplace, this was the impetus to a struggle that has still not been fought. To this day, women's salary is in the same position and with the same or even higher degree than men is still a lot lower. Unfortunately, as far as sexual harassment is concerned, there is still a long way to go.

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As women still do the majority of (undervalued) care tasks, including taking care of children or older relatives, it is high time to focus on all those unremunerated care tasks.

 

International Women's Day - time for focus on unpaid care tasks | News | European Parliament

For example, why is there still no compensation for running the full-time household and taking care of your children?

Why do we still feel useless when we don't have a “real job”?

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