[lbo-talk] gender & work time

bitch at pulpculture.org bitch at pulpculture.org
Sat Apr 21 08:33:45 PDT 2007


At 02:52 AM 4/21/2007, you wrote:
>Doug wrote:
>
>"Yeah, these are all valid objections, but it's interesting that
>despite similar data from many countries around the world, some
>people think they just *know* otherwise. Sometimes the things that
>people "know" just aren't true"
>
>Sorry, maybe I bumped into this thread half way through, but what in
>particular did you have in mind as the things that some people know but are
>not true?
>
>James

prob. barbara ehrenreich since the premise of the work on maids was that men and women hadn't resolved the struggle over housework in favor of men doing more, but by farming out the work to cheap labor. hence, in the article she wrote, which rec'd some heated reviews here, she said that the feminist movement had contributed to the problem by giving up on the war over housework, which had been a staple of feminism in her generation. instead of getting men (and children) to do more, women, including feminists, just gave up and started hiring maids, as well as service workers and household help. this is something hochschild also explores in Time Bind where the women in her study hire people to shop give their children birthday parties because they find it hard to juggle market labor and household labor.

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