Stop paying (mostly) women, tell them to continue working in a crisis (significant emotional labour & mental load, care work & educational expertise) for free. It's never "free". Carrying the mental load, emotional labour & performing care - costs - paid or not. #abed #ableg 1/ https://twitter.com/Falkenboss/status/1245749327017852928

The assumption that (mostly) women, should do any care work because it's the *right* think to do, adds to the 2nd & 3rd shift, gender wage gap & makes the work invisible. It literally "doesn't count" - except that if you don't do it you are a "cruel" "selfish" woman. 2/ #ableg

Imagine telling oil field workers they should work for "free" because prices have tanked, we're in crisis, "need" oil, but can't pay them. Ludicrous? It is - but for some reason it's totally reasonable to suggest this for care work performed by (mostly) women. 3/ #ableg

Add the primary responsibility for providing emotional (& potentially health) support to family & friends, maybe caring for your own kids 24/7 (incl school), a significant increase in burden of cleaning (also expected of (& taken more seriously by) women). 4/ #ableg

Emotional support for needs that have skyrocketed. More people in crisis, anxious kids, (including those you support at school & the ones you have at home), anyone dealing with change & disruption (oh that's everyone). #ableg 5/

Add the assumption that it's just "normal" for intimate partner violence to increase in a crisis - & blame the crisis instead of the perps & normalize & justify "passionate", abusive, gaslighting & stalking behaviour in our health minister. #ableg 6/

If you refuse to (or can't) participate, or set boundaries, you are the "problem". EAs will do this work. Most people (mostly women) in caring professions will. They care. That care is essential for society & economy to function but it's erased & devalued. #whocounts #ableg 7/

Women will carry more of the load of this crisis. The expectation that we should offload (& erase from the GDP) carework of trained professionals because women should "just care" probably warrants a human rights complaint. #ableg #HumanRights
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/03/feminism-womens-rights-coronavirus-covid19/608302/ #ableg 8/

A few resources on why, how & the repercussions of erasing carework done by women.
https://www.nfb.ca/film/whos_counting/
https://www.oecd.org/dev/development-gender/Unpaid_care_work.pdf
https://qz.com/599999/at-work-as-at-home-men-reap-the-benefits-of-womens-invisible-labor/
https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/invisible-but-indispensable-the-unpaid-work-at-the-heart-of-our-economies/
https://content.ucpress.edu/chapters/12969.ch01.pdf
#ableg 9/