>Ergo - Utopia? Doable. Now. But only over our employers' headless
>corpses (and the bloodlust is merited - if someone steals your _life_
>from you at 160+ hours per month in the name of some ultimately
>fictitious economic necessity, what else can you want but to see their
>head in a wicker basket?)
>
>Eric Leher
well, when you buoyz start figuring out that it's time to do your share of the housework and childcare after those twenty hours, us grrlz will might actually give a rat's ass.
in the US, women with children do about 3 fulltime 24/7 hours of wokr more per week than do their partners.
interesting to note that, when i chaired a conference session work/family issues, one fellah showed how the upper middle class solved all these problems by sloughing the housework off in their consumption. instead of making meals from scratch, they bought them at the store. instead of using dishes, they used disposables. etc.
he saw greater gender equality being achieved. wooohooo! whatta guy. this conversation, with the exception of a few voices,such as justin and miles, seems to miss this issue altogether.
researchers in the sociology of education have shown how crucial the work of caring for children is to the formal institutions of schooling: teaching them to tie their shoes, whipe their noses, coaching them at homework, reading bedtime stories, etc. without that labor, the schools would be burdened down with more work.
thanks for playing.
kelley