Re: AUT: Re: Republican Wages for Housework?

[Montyneill@xxxxxxx]

Yes, twas I in the guise of employee who had the letter -- thanks.

We've  covered exactly these points before -- raising a kid vs cooking meals
for a guy, etc., so why go over it again? In any event, large numbers of jobs
stink and people do them because they need a wage. Added to that can be the
social isolation of being a housewife, a situation made far worse by
suburbanization. I have stayed at home for a job, and after a while the
isolation got to me. WfH proponents argued that with more money, it would be
easier for women to get out, socialize more, etc.

Even a woman being waged is no guarantee either of sharing housework or of
escaping taking orders from a man. An anecdote, but I think all to common, at
a jazz club we were talking with a couple women who had come in, and one said
she almost never went out at night because her husband did not let her... My
point is, I think it wrong to directly exrapolate that if women had been able
to gain significant $ for housework nothing else would change, or that getting
a wage outside the house necessarily causes lots of other aspects of
oppressive social relations to change. Maybe over time with struggle and
education, it will.

Monty



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