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Happy Christmas
It’s time to care for carers
Are you a Carer?
Are you a carer? There are now seven million unpaid carers in the UK alone who look after family, a friend or a neighbour who couldn’t cope without them. One in eight of us will be a carer at some point in our lives.
Carers have a right to not be impoverished, overworked and exploited
Around the world caring work is overwhelmingly carried out by women.
Why is it still not given the recognition and respect it deserves, asks NINA LOPEZ
IN 1946, Liverpool Suffragette and independent MP Eleanor Rathbone won universal family allowance — later called child benefit — after decades of campaigning.
She was outraged at mothers’ dependence and poverty: “Nothing can justify the subordination of one group of producers — the mothers — to the rest, and their deprivation of all share of their own in the wealth of a community which depends on them for its very existence.”