The Guardian view on women’s unpaid labour: attitudes have shifted, but the burden hasn’t | Editorial
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The Guardian view on women’s unpaid labour: attitudes have shifted, but the burden hasn’t | Editorial
When moms out-earn their husbands, they gain more housework, study says
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Feminism is a half-finished revolution. We have been really quite successful when it comes to giving women access to domains that have previously been jealously guarded (often through legal structures) as exclusively male. We have proven that a woman can be “as good as a man” in any number of fields.
But we have progressed very little when it comes
... See moreWomen do almost three times the care work of men, they do 60% more of the unpaid labour and that's obviously devastating for their careers. Many of us are working full-time, more than three-quarters of mothers work. So you have a situation where we're going to work, doing all of this paid work, and then coming back and doing unpaid work as well. Ma... See more
How to reduce the motherhood penalty and the gender pay gap ...
Just as Marx called into question the naturalness of work under capitalism – showing it not as a natural attribute of humanity but a historically specific and violent arrangement – women associated with the Wages for Housework movement sought to show that the unpaid work women did in the home was not out of a natural feminine benevolence, but explo
... See moreAmelia Horgan • Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism (Outspoken by Pluto)
“I think the biggest reason that labor-saving technology in the home didn’t actually reduce labor for housewives is that the opportunity cost of women’s labor was socially valued at zero,” Schor told me. “By that I mean, a lot of men wanted their wives to keep busy but assumed that they would be worthless outside the home, as salaried workers, like
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