Here’s one of those stories that tells you what the work you’re doing at home would be paid if you had to hire someone else to do it. … Of course a big part of the job of mothering is about what someone else couldn’t or wouldn’t do. And specifically about evading the paid economy. If it were paid at these rates, a lot of this work wouldn’t get done, because few people could afford it. Family is another word for venture capital, of both monetary and non-monetary kinds.
Up until recently, women’s work has been largely limited to bearing and rearing the workforce for free, because they had no other option. But when sex and babies cease to be directly linked, business and government risk losing their major underwriter—the moms, if they don’t offer of family-supportive policies for women who want to combine work and childrearing.
The biggest salary gains were for women who had invested some of the delay time in getting an advanced degree and then went on to establish at work before having kids.
Though we’ve heard a lot about this recession affecting men’s jobs more than women’s, the jobs that we’ve heard that women have no trouble holding on to are the low paid jobs in traditionally female fields. IIn the past, where women had made inroads into better paid, traditionally male fields they were often disproportionately represented in the layoff pools. Is that still the case – or have we turned a corner?
Womentoring = the way up for all
“If [business] people don’t make it happen, then the government has to make it happen. … We should be able to make it happen without legislation.”
improved EDUCATION for kids, HIGHER lifetime WAGES for the women workers whose kids are in the childcare and for their families, more access to HEALTH CARE for families, improved education for the teachers, and many new GOOD, UNEXPORTABLE JOBS