Women do most elder care in this country—most often while still holding paid jobs. About 80% of unpaid family caregivers are women. They spend roughly 20-30 hours a week managing medications, lifting bodies, coordinating appointments, and absorbing emotional fallout. The unpaid labor alone is valued at over $600 billion a year. Not a penny of it hits their bank accounts. The cost lands elsewhere. Women caregivers—already spent from raising families, managing households, and generally doing more

Gilad Janklowicz's Bodies In Motion (November 2, 1992)