Invisible work: Women strike back | Don't Drink the Milk – Podcast

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Women around the world and across generations are connected by this familiar thing that you can't actually see: invisible labor. The mountain of tasks that go unseen and undervalued, and which fall mainly on the shoulders of women. Join Rachel and Sam as they meet wise Icelandic grandmothers and fired up 4B activists from South Korea to find out what happens when women push back.

Chapter index:

0:00 Intro

0:18 The day Iceland stood still

4:25 What is invisible work?

9:12 Women's time is viewed as sand

10:41 A revolution as the end of the earth

21:23 The legacy of the Women's Day Off

24:02 Beauty labor in South Korea

31:18 The 4B movement

33:41 Unpaid labor and sharing the load

40:43 Full circle in Iceland

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Interviewees featured in this episode:

Hildur Hákonardóttir, Participant in the Women's Day Off 1975

Gudrun Augustdóttir, Participant in the Women's Day Off 1975

Hrafnhildur 'Hrabba' Gunnarsdóttir, Producer "The Day Iceland Stood Still"

Eve Rodsky, Author "Fair Play"

Rakel Adolphsdóttir, Icelandic Women's History Archives

Haein Shim, Member of South Korea's Escape the Corset and 4B Movements

This episode of Don't Drink the Milk was produced by Sam Baker, edited by Charli Shield, fact checked by Julia Rose and hosted by Rachel Stewart. Thanks to filmmakers Hrabba and Pamela Hogan, the RÚV Archive , Iceland's Women's History Archives and Icelandic artist mammaðín for the closing track.
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