Forgettidyhomes: this story of the fight against enforced domesticity is a bit of a mess

Housework is unbelievably boring.

- HARRIET ADDISON

Time can always be better spent reading a book, staring out of the window, lying on the floor... Literally anything. But, does it count as work? Should it be paid for? In the 1970s, a group of women became fed up with a life of enforced domesticity, and decided that at the very least, if they must do it, they should be paid for it. “We want wages for every dirty toilet, every indecent assault, every painful childbirth, every cup of coffee and every smile.” A new book by historian Emily Callaci tells the story of the group of feminists who created and drove this eponymous movement.