The UK has historically depended on women's unpaid labor for essential services, particularly around safeguarding and support for victims of gender-based violence. Jess Phillips emphasized that this reliance is rooted in systemic sexism, where women created and provided these services without compensation. She criticized the perception that such issues are solely the responsibility of the Home Office and stated that the provision of support and education around gender-based violence should be integrated across all government departments. Phillips pointed out the lack of recognition of the significant contributions made by women in providing these services.
Free labour of women is where it comes from. It comes from a fundamentally sexist place in that women didn't have these services, so a load of women across the country got together and made these services and offered them to other women for free.
Nobody offered diabetes medicine for free. Pharmaceutical companies didn't go, 'Wow, this is really important. People will die without this. We'll just give it away for free.' That is what the women have had to do.
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