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9 Mar, 2014

Italian campaigners call for housewives to be paid a salary | theguardian.com

If you happen to be one of the stars of the reality television franchise The Real Housewives, you can expect to receive hundreds of thousands of dollars as payment for every season of dirty laundry washed in public. If, however, you are an actual housewife and your daily chores are done quietly behind closed doors, chances are your efforts go unremunerated.

But a prominent pair of campaigners in Italy, a country with an estimated 5 million casalinghe (housewives), a moribund jobs market and a lingering patriarchal culture, this week threw their weight behind an eye-catching proposal they say would boost equality and fight domestic abuse: a salary for women working in the home.

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