Back to normal sounds comforting, when a virus has upended our world. As a student, I did paid holiday work for an accountant, in a rest-home, as a nanny, and on orchards. Historically, paid and unpaid work was split between genders. Paid and unpaid jobs are now cast as real work and non-work. I am one of the lucky ones, those over-65s who have New Zealand Super imprinted fortnightly on their bank statements.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 28, 2020 16:30 UTC