What do you do if you have to take time off work to care for a sick child or parent? Have you personally shouldered the burden for economic hardship in your household? Apart from work and family responsibilities, on average how much time a day would you say you have to yourself when you are not sleeping?

This economy is incredibly hard on working families struggling to deal with soaring unemployment, wage stagnation, credit card debt and a host of other issues. But working women (a category in which we include stay at home moms) often don’t have the resources or support to help meet these challenges. Working women also face special challenges, from unequal pay to balancing work and family obligations.

Working America and the AFL-CIO want to hear all about it. The Ask a Working Woman survey, conducted biennially for over a decade, highlights working women’s concerns and experiences, as well as the challenges they face and the hopes they hold. Taking the survey will add your voice to those of thousands of other women.

The survey asks not just about the “women’s issues” so often sidelined in the political discourse but about women’s perspectives on the issues all working people face—we know that women’s interests and working people’s interests are not two different things. Your answers on the survey will combat that sidelining of women’s voices and help break through the disconnect between what pundits and too many elected officials claim working people want and what working people actually say matters.

We know you’re busy (in 2008 (PDF), nearly half of Ask a Working Woman participants told us that, after work and family responsibilities, they had less than an hour a day to themselves), but taking the survey will only take approximately seven minutes. Help us keep working women’s voices in the mix.