[lbo-talk] Sex and Capitalism

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 3/6/07, James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> "James, I quoted you the BLS's figures for aggregate hours worked in
> the private sector ...They show a rise nearly twice the rate of the overall
> growth in the pop.. ...Why do you have such a hard time believing this?
>
> Doug"
>
> Doug, it is not that I have a hard time believing this,
> it is just that I am not used to the idea that immigration
> and more women in work is a bad thing.

On 3/6/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> More women working (for pay - they've always worked without pay) is a
> good thing. It makes them more independent of men. But it also means
> that the number of paid work hours in the society has risen
> dramatically, with little assistance for child or elder care (two
> things that are on my male mind right now, too).

A good thing can't come without a bad thing for they are two sides of
the same coin.  More capitalism and more sex/gender equality have gone
hand in hand just about everywhere, from American capitalism to
Swedish social democracy to Cuban socialism.  That being the case,
resistance to a bad thing, more often than not, comes with resistance
to a good thing.
-- 
Yoshie
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