On Oct 17, 2009, at 9:05 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> 3) men and women partly inhabit different labor markets, with
> different occupations and lifetime patterns of work
This is an important point - the move of women from the home itself created demand for substitutes for the product of domestic labor. It's probably less coherent to speak of the entrance of women into work than the rationalization of women's work, whose efficiency gains allowed some female labor to be shifted to traditionally male sectors.