Stats to chew on ...

Unpaid work in Canada is worth $319 billion, or 41% of the GDP.
That's 25 billion hours of unpaid work every year.
Women perform 2/3 of that work.
The average woman spends twice as much time on unpaid work as on paid work.

"Time is the one unit of exchange we all have in common, the one investment we all have to make, the one resource we cannot reproduce." Marilyn Waring

Thanks to the people at Women & the Economy for these statistics, and for the quotation. There's lots more fascinating info on their site, and an experiment to try at home: charting your daily activities, hour by hour, to see how you're spending your time.

As always, thanks for continuing to reply to the questionnaire (yes, I will plug this in perpetuity!). I'm still trying to figure out what to do with your thoughts, how to integrate them into something more connected and coherent, but meantime, your responses are individual and unique, and I thank you for each one.