# The Gift Highway

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**Created:** [January 9, 2024, 11:39am UTC](https://tzm.one/t/the-gift-highway/46246 "2024-01-09T11:39:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Louie](https://tzm.one/user_avatar/tzm.one/louie/32/50_2.png) [@Louie](https://tzm.one/u/Louie)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 11:39am UTC](https://tzm.one/t/the-gift-highway/46246/1 "2024-01-09T11:39:29Z")

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_By Myfan Jordan._

During Australia’s experience of the coronavirus pandemic, Melbourne/Naarm, was one of the ‘[most locked down cities in the world](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-25/fact-check-is-melbourne-most-locked-down-city/100560172).’ While the economic fallout had firstly impacted younger workers, Australia soon also saw the ‘[shecession](https://www.forbes.com/sites/lizelting/2022/02/12/the-she-cession-by-the-numbers/?sh=7c21c22a1053)’ or ‘[pink recession](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/25/new-zealand-is-in-a-shecession-so-where-is-the-much-needed-she-covery)’ recognised in other countries. This gendered disadvantage emerging as a result of the crisis articulated the ways in which women were impacted differently than men: with increased vulnerable to unemployment and job precarity as a result of work tenure, and also in the increased burden of _unpaid work_ falling – particularly – on the shoulders of mothers homeschooling younger children and supporting ageing parents and parents-in-law.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://degrowth.org/2024/01/09/the-gift-highway/](https://degrowth.org/2024/01/09/the-gift-highway/)