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Mother load: How lockdown rebooted the conversation on unpaid labour

Housework and childcare are often thankless tasks, and during lockdown many households struggled under the extra weight. Research shows in a fast-changing world, one thing that hasn’t shifted is that women continue to shoulder more than their share of the load. Fia Walsh reports.

Video report by Fia Walsh
 

 

 

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