Essays on unpaid work

We have commissioned series of essays, an unpaid work literature review 2019, and a literature scan from a Pacific perspective, looking at differing aspects of unpaid work from a variety of cultural perspectives and work-related settings. These essays reflect the authors' perspectives and are not Ministry policy documents.

If you have any thoughts, please email us at info@women.govt.nz 

Essays

• Dr Jess Berentson-Shaw - Unpaid caring work: telling the story of the glue that holds our communities together
• Dr Miriama Postlethwaite - Awhi mai Awhi atu
• Helga Wientjes - Measuring the value of unpaid work
• Karen Vercoe - Unpaid work - the ultimate form of love and servant leadership - a Māori women's perspective
• Kerri Anne Hancock - For the Kaupapa!
• Rob Campbell - The present and future of unpaid work
• Dame Marilyn Waring - Unpaid contributions are excluded from the primary data used to make public policy
• Dr Ganesh Nana - The value of unpaid labour
• Dr Seini Taufa - Re-defining unpaid work through the eyes of a taahine Tonga
• Dr Gill Greer - Women as caregivers for those with rare disorders 
• Lucia Davis - The value of amazing things: Ethnic mothers’ work of care, regeneration, and reproduction
• Jean Mitaera - The value of unpaid work – a Cook Islands view
• Norah Barlow - Unpaid work and older care