Unpaid care work is usually brought up (and rightly so!) to make the case that women work at least as much as men do. But what if history told us that we don’t even need to look beyond the actual workplace? For most of our history, «there was no such thing as a workplace distinct from the home». And thus, «women have been engaged in labor and the economy for as long as we’ve had an economy.» Take this excellent post by Isabelle Roughol as a gateway to her new podcast Broad History («The history you think you know – with women in it this time»).

From Weekly Filet #563, in February 2026.