"The necessity and value of domestic labor was absent from [Adam Smith's] reflections on men acting in their own self-interest. The real invisible hands in Smith's accounting of the market remain conspicuously excluded."
Whether it's waking up every 45 minutes to feed a screaming baby, making shopping lists while roasting under the duvet in an insomniac hormonal flush, staying up past midnight to clean the house once your children are in bed, or setting the alarm for 4.45am so you can get your elderly mother to the toilet before she has an accident; the night shift of unpaid, unrecognised and uncelebrated domestic labour is still predominantly undertaken by women.