![]() ![]() ![]() Where underpaid and exploited migrant domestic workers spend their youth and adulthood looking after a family that isn’t even theirs, far away from their own. Fathers, or father figures, continue to tell their young daughters that they’re so glad to have had girls because in their old age, daughters will be by their side, while sons are unreliable (read not obliged). ![]() Where unmarried daughters, “spinsters”, and widows are expected to fulfill their unlived destinies by caring for the family’s sick and elderly. Feminized work may just as well be defined as work that is unappreciated, assured, expected, and taken for granted. The kind that everything depends on to exist, that very little thanks is given to, very few see, and barely any of its time and energy is compensated. Cleaning and nesting are the processes that give home and an environment of wellness. Asking is the process that makes one feel understood. Listening is the process that makes one feel heard. Cooking is the process that brings upon eats. ![]() And for as long as I can remember, women around me and far away from me, have been invested in processes trusting that only sound, patient and protected processes yield desired outcomes. ![]()
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