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internship
An internship is a period of work experience offered by an organization for a limited period of time. Once confined to medical graduates, internship is used to practice for a wide range of placements in businesses, non-profit organizations, government agencies and political parties. They are typically undertaken by students and graduates looking to gain relevant skills and experience in a particular field. Employers benefit from these placements because they often recruit employees from their best interns, who have known capabilities, thus saving time and money in the long run. Internships are
housekeeping
thumb|Girl guides cleaning a room, 1917 Housekeeping is the management and routine support activities of running and maintaining an organized physical institution occupied or used by people, like a house, ship, hospital or factory, such as cleaning, tidying/organizing, cooking, shopping, and bill payment. These tasks may be performed by members of the household, or by persons hired for the purpose. This is a more broad role than a cleaner, who is focused only on the cleaning aspect. The term is also used to refer to the money allocated for such use. By extension, it may also refer to an office
caregiver
thumb|A resident of St John of God Trust and a caregiver in Halswell, [[New Zealand]] A caregiver, carer or support worker is a paid or unpaid person who helps an individual with activities of daily living. Family caregivers – members of a care recipient's family are also described as informal caregivers, as are those carers from the recipient's social network. Other trained caregivers are paid healthcare workers who most commonly assist with impairments related to old age, disability, a disease, or a mental disorder.
double burden
workload of people who both earn money and have significant domestic responsibilities
homemaking
thumb|right|Good Housekeeping is one of several magazines related to homemaking. thumb|right|Title page of Our Home Cyclopedia: Cookery and Housekeeping, published in Detroit, Michigan, in 1889
women's work
work believed to be exclusively the domain of women
care work
sub-category of work that includes all tasks that directly involve care processes done in service of others
unpaid work
unpaid labor, labor that does not receive any direct remuneration
trudoden
Trudoden (, portmanteau literally meaning labourday) was a unit of value and type of accounting of quantity and quality of labor (as a factor of production) in collective farms (kolkhozes) of the Soviet Union in 1930 – 1966. It literally means a day of labor. It was the only form of wage payments in collective farms, as the in-kind compensation for labor equaled the amount of trudodens per given time period. Beside working for free, a Soviet peasant of collective farm was not permitted to leave his or her village without permission from a head of the local collective farm.