Women’s Work

This is an exhibition based on the Nuffield Foundation funded project Women in Multiple Low-paid Employment: Pathways between Work Care and Health (2020-2024).  This project was the first to study the nature and extent of women’s multiple low-paid employment (MLPE) in the UK.  The focus on women’s multiple low-paid work is novel yet increasingly important and relevant – almost one in five women experience multiple low paid employment at some point over a decade.

The exhibition, Women’s Work: The Juggling Act of Multiple Jobs, builds on research based at the University of Glasgow exploring women’s low paid employment, highlighting issues around multiple paid and unpaid work, caring responsibilities and health and wellbeing. The project and exhibition provide unique and timely insights into the key features of the women’s work, detailing the lived experience of multiple low-paid employment in the UK today.

At the exhibition you will engage with key facts and figures, women’s lived experience, commentaries and insights.  You will find links to resources including key publications, women’s personal testimonies, and the opportunity to calculate the value of your unpaid labour.

The exhibition provides space to reflect on women’s work: the types of work women do, the value of women’s work, the protections and supports available (or lack of), the impact of childcare and informal caring responsibilities on women’s work, and the health and wellbeing implications of multiple low-paid work for women’s lives.

Dr Louise Lawson, Urban Studies and Social Policy

Anyone with an interest in women’s paid and unpaid work.

Anyone interested in women’s paid and unpaid work, employment (especially low-paid employment), social security, social policy and/or poverty issues, including members of the public,  policymakers, politicians, public sector professionals, researchers and students.