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For most of my younger years, politics felt distant. I associated it with Parliament on the television, men in suits arguing, complicated language about budgets and committees, and decisions that felt far away from my day-to-day life. I voted when I could, because I believed it was important, but I never really thought of domestic policy as something that directly shaped me as a woman.

Unpaid work, cooking, cleaning, caring, volunteering, emotional labour, is the unacknowledged foundation of daily life. It sustains families, communities, and economies, yet remains invisible in national statistics, undervalued by policymakers, and disproportionately borne by women.