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This book is for the millions of mothers who woke up this morning and went to work, paid and unpaid.
Who were forced to leave babies and young children in care arrangements that are inadequate.
Get your copy
All Mothers Work is open for pre-orders now, and will be published in September 2025.
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Join the conversation to shift tired narratives around mothers failing to contribute to our society and economic. ​Join the movement to recognise and value all of a mother's contributions, not just her paid work. ​
About the Author
Virginia Tapscott
Mother, Author & Founding Director of Parents Work Collective
Virginia Tapscott is a passionate advocate for maternal rights and the importance of reproductive and care labour in society. A journalist by trade, Virginia has written extensively about unpaid care work, motherhood, feminism and childcare, and has proposed innovative market mechanisms and government policies that can uplift mothers and families. Virginia believes in fostering cultural attitudes that recognise and support the invaluable contributions of mothers, aiming to create a world where care work is valued and sustained.
About the book
Change is urgent
Change in this space is an absolute matter of urgency. This book lays out a revolutionary plan to fix failing care systems and truly liberate women.
Mothers are overworked and undervalued
Parents are experiencing chronic stress and isolation. Families are forced to accept inadequate care solutions. Children are not guaranteed quality care.
This book will change the conversation
For too long women and our contributions have been treated as a problem to be solved but the real problem is a collective failure to assign value to women's work. Unpaid care work is absolutely vital but unless we start changing the conversation it will remain unsupported in culture and policy.
All of a mother's contributions must be recognised
Truly liberating women will never be achieved by degrading and minimising care work, which we see every day in policy and language that seeks to rush mothers back to more and more paid work hours.
