>To conceptualize the second shift as men exploiting women encourages
>us to overlook what is to me the important economic arrangement
>here: the more valuable labor done in the household, the lower
>the wages on which workers can survive. In the end, who really
>benefits from the second shift? It is not men as a group; rather,
>it is the capitalist class that can shunt the costs of reproducing
>the labor force back onto the workers' households.
Yeah, but what about the men who don't have to swab the toilet?
Doug