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Stephanie Gardiner

The 50-year fight to recognise rural mums' unpaid work

Rebecca Pearce is among many women giving up paid work to oversee their kids' education. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

For Matilda Pearce, a school day might involve online classes in an outback farmhouse, doing maths in a paddock, practising spelling words in the car or reading a book on the long trip to town.

"There's definitely no average day," the eight-year-old's mum, farmer Rebecca Pearce, tells AAP during a break from herding cattle.

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