The dish thoughts about being a woman, doing the dishes, and how healing never seems to feel quite right to me.

this did pretty well its first time around, so here we are: "the dish," a little memory about my a relative's corningware, being a woman, and doing the f*cking dishes

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Writer and podcaster Mohua Chinappa reflects on the “quiet power” of homemakers, highlighting the resilience behind unpaid, unseen work and the women in the UK balancing family, careers and cultural expectations.

#MohuaChinappa #QuietPower #Homemakers #UnpaidLabour #InvisibleWork #WomenVoices

**HEAR YE AND HEAR ME!**

November is #DomesticArtsRevivalMonth! The #SoftRevolution of #homemakers, #spinsters, and #home #alchemists everywhere. We’re reclaiming cleaning as #ritual, #cooking as #spellwork, and rest as #rebellion. Long live the #homemaker! ✨🧺

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🫵🏾 I’m calling all soft rebels, #homemakers, and cozy revolutionaries. The kettle’s on, the #snacks are waiting, and the #magic’s already in the air.

💌 Join the #coven now!

We’ve got snacks, #spells, and #sisterhood. #spinsterliving #homemaker #domesticarts

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My Nana's Bicentennial Christmas table. She was a Martha Stewart type before there was a Martha Stewart, and could do just about anything in the home or garden. 1976. #marthasteward #housebeautiful #homeandgarden #homemaker #homemakers #midtwentiethcentury #Christmas

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Japan’s labour crunch forces rethink on traditional homemakers © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Female office workers wearing high heels, clothes and bags of the same colour make their way at a business district in Tokyo, Japan, June 4, 2019. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s labour shortage is forcing its conservative lawmakers to consider overhauling decades-old social welfare rules originally designed to encourage married women to spend more hours looking after the home. Policymakers are expected to pass legislation on Friday that would require part-time workers to pay into pension and health-insurance schemes, essentially scaling back exemptions now seen as a major disincentive for women to work longer hours or advance their careers. Introduced in 1986 during Japan’s economic boom, the exemptions apply to "dependent" spouses who earn less than 1.3 million yen ($9,028) a year, as part of an expansion of social welfare at the time. While the proposed reforms are aimed at easing a current workers crunch in Japan, they would not completely scrap a system that many argue is both unproductive and a product of outdated gender expectations. Businesses and analysts now say the economic pressures created by the current worker crunch outweigh historic concerns about ensuring all "housewives", no longer a majority of married women, were covered by the pension scheme. "From the standpoint of labour economics, it’s an irrational system that not only restricts the supply of high-quality female labour forces but also serves to limit pressure for wage growth," Nobuko Nagase, professor at Otsuma Women’s University. Japan’s labour shortage is hitting historic levels, particularly among non-manufacturers and small firms, driven by a rapidly aging and declining population. Businesses complain the existing pension scheme makes it extremely difficult to fill shortages with part-time workers who wish to limit annual pay below the thresholds. The Japan Association of Corporate Executives, a major business lobby, this week renewed its call for the abolition of the system. "We urge the government for an immediate review," it said in its policy proposal. "It is necessary to revise the conventional system design that is based on the full-time homemaker ideal." But while arguments to get rid of the system have broadened, the appetite among conservative lawmakers for deeper reform has been mixed. The bill has broad parliamentary support and in its current form effectively requires most part-timers who work more than 20 hours a week to pay into corporate pension and health-insurance schemes regardless of income levels and company size. According to the welfare ministry, the changes, to be implemented in phases, would mean about 900,000 part-time women would start paying insurance fees, shrinking the pool of about 6.7 million dependent spouses, 98% of whom are women. But the bill still preserves the system for dependent spouses, stating bigger changes would require "a national debate" and more research. "In the latest pension system reform, we were unable to reach a consensus," Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba told parliament last week. "There are various people eligible under this system, not only full-time housewives but also those who are unable to work due to illness, childcare, or nursing responsibilities," he said. In December, Ishiba argued the system should not be completely dismissed. "Full-time housewives aren’t the type of people living a leisurely life of naps and trivialities...they diligently protect their homes and manage a wide range of responsibilities," he said. Although the government will subsidise the costs temporarily, the 20-hour threshold could simply prompt dependent spouse part-timers to limit their working hours, some say. Maiko Takahashi, 45-year-old mother of three children, said she would choose to remain as a dependent spouse with her two part-time jobs. "I would rather limit work hours instead of having to pay insurance fees, because I also want to spend enough time with my children," she said. "But I always felt it’s a strange system. Why do they discourage those who want to work more?" she added. GENERATIONAL SHIFT The debate about dependent spouses goes back to 2000, when a government panel was set up to see if pension schemes could better reflect demographic changes. By then, dual-income households already outnumbered families with full-time housewives. The fairness of the scheme has also been questioned because those married to self-employed workers are not exempt from insurance fees. Japan’s largest trade union umbrella group Rengo, as well as top business lobbying groups, want more aggressive reform, calling for ditching the dependent spouse system. The system "is disturbing the development of women’s careers and causing a gender wage gap," the 7-million member Rengo group said. Tomoko Yoshino, the first female chief of Rengo, said she began to believe the system needed change in the early 1990s, when the economic boom burst and dual-income households increased. "Despite the sense of unfairness shared among women, the issue unfortunately failed to reach decision-making levels at the group for discussions in the past, partly because of the very limited presence of women at those levels," she said. Nagase, professor at Otsuma Women’s University, said the reform has to come with a shift in the mindset of employers who still see part-time female workers as a source of cheap labour and supplementary to male workers. Wages for part-time workers are very low compared with those for regular workers and opportunities for promotion are limited, Nagase said. ($1 = 143.9900 yen)

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Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican A crop of conservative personalities such as Brett Cooper and Candace Owens, and outlets like Evie, are convincing young women of a gender-essentialist worldview

🇨🇦🍁 Very disturbing. They promote #tradwives, anti- #feminist values, #women as submissive #homemakers who are anti #science, anti #freedom & anti #independence.
#elbowsup #never51 #CanadaStrong #resistance
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What about the #women #homemakers? Many boomer women weren’t allowed to work. ?!😡

The #SocialSecurity Administration (SSA) will prohibit people from retiring if they haven't accumulated the 40 credits required to qualify for a pension.
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To #fix #fast #fashion and #help #women who are #homemakers, we'll have them cut, sew, ship the clothing. Put #money in the hands of mothers. No #sweatshops.

The unpaid job of a homemaker How it’s affecting her mental health Continue reading on Write A Catalyst »

The unpaid job of a homemaker #MentalHealth #Homemakers #WomenEmpowerment #MentalHealthAwareness #WorkLifeBalance

I’m new here. Looking for fellow:

#pagans
#witches
#heathens
#crocheters
#homeschoolers
#homemakers
#paganparents
#ADHD

Here are some pics of a chonky bee. You’re welcome.

小学校の跡地カフェでランチ

#小豆島　#HOMEMAKERS #農村ホテルNOTEL

Good mornin chikkuns
I'm back from a 2 wk rest into September
#WorldAlzheimersMonth
continuing to talk about #stuffoflife
the stuff around us that tells a story
an extension of ourselves
weaving context
belonging
safety
a legacy
Here's a poem I wrote on holiday

#homemakers

Good morning lovelies
As promised my new #blog "Touchpoints of Connection"
maybe serve with your fave cuppa

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#massagefordementia #dementia #dementiafriendly #stuffoflife #homemakers

“無農薬栽培ダイダイ使用！” 『ダイダイポン酢』 | kitanosaketen powered by BASE 2024/04/15お休み明け月曜日、皆様今日も一日お疲れ様でした(u_u)今週水曜日は第三水曜日で【きたの】定休日となりますので、宜しくお願い致しますm(_ _)mさぁ今日は、#...

小豆島【HOMEMAKERS】さんより…
“無農薬栽培ダイダイ使用！”
『ダイダイポン酢』
湯豆腐や蒸し野菜、サラダなどにあう、柔らかだけど、濃厚で香り豊かなぽん酢♪

#小豆島
#HOMEMAKERS
#ダイダイポン酢

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“身体の中から元気に！” 『シトラスジンジャーシロップ』 | kitanosaketen powered by BASE 2024/04/14皆様、今日も一日お疲れ様でした(u_u)夏を思わせる気温でしたが、皆様良い休日を過ごされましたか？まだまだ身体が暑さに慣れていない時なので、熱中症等お気...

小豆島【HOMEMAKERS】さんより…
“身体の中から元気に！”
『シトラスジンジャーシロップ』
生姜のピリッとした辛味と柑橘の爽やかな酸味、キビ糖のコクのある甘みが絶妙です(*´∀`)ウンマー

#小豆島
#HOMEMAKERS
#シトラスジンジャーシロップ

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“身体の中から元気に！” 『プレーンジンジャーシロップ』 | kitanosaketen powered by BASE 2024/04/11皆様、今日も一日お疲れ様でした(u_u)ふとSNSを眺めていたら過去の思い出機能で、4年前のちょうど今日4月11日に本格的にオンラインショップを開始していまし...

小豆島【HOMEMAKERS】さんより…
“身体の中から元気に！”
『プレーンジンジャーシロップ』
しっかり感じる生姜とスパイスで、冷たくして飲むとシャキッと、暖かくして飲むとホッと…身体の中から元気になった気がします(о´∀`о)

#HOMEMAKERS
#ジンジャーシロップ
#無農薬

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“柑橘まんまの味わい！” 『ダイダイレモンシロップ』 | kitanosaketen powered by BASE 2024/04/10皆様、今日も一日お疲れ様でした(u_u)今日は配達の運転中に、小学校の入学式やろうなぁって親子連れの方達を目にしてホッコリとした気分になりました(*´ω`*)...

小豆島【HOMEMAKERS】さんより…
“柑橘まんまの味わい！”
『ダイダイレモンシロップ』
炭酸割りでダイダイレモンソーダ、お湯割りでホットダイダイレモン…僕は炭酸割りにウォッカを足してダイダイレモンサワーに！
甘さ控えめなので、食事とも良く合います(*´∀`)ウンマー

#HOMEMAKERS
#ダイダイレモンシロップ
#無農薬

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『小豆島【HOMEMAKERS】さんのシロップ取扱い開始しました(o^^o)』 | kitanosaketen powered by BASE 2024/04/09皆様、今日も一日お疲れ様でした(u_u)桜も昨日の雨で大分散ってしまいましたね…皆様お花見楽しまれましたか？【きたの】もお陰様で、あちこちのお花見現場を...

『小豆島【HOMEMAKERS】さんのシロップ取扱い開始しました(o^^o)』
また其々詳しくご紹介させて頂き、ショップにもアップさせて頂きますね！

#小豆島
#HOMEMAKERS

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