>Just what is the proportion of American families who are rich enough
>to hire cleaners and _nannies_? More importantly, what does the
>topic have to do with feminism?
In her Harper's and In These Times articles on the subject, Ehrenreich argued that the domestic labor debate had disappeared from feminism in large part because feminist intellectuals solved the problem by contracting out for toilet-swabbing. Subscribers to femecon found this quickly confirmed by the so-called "dean of feminist economics," Barbara Bergmann.
Doug