Re: mom's salary

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

Doug wrote:
>In the run-up to Mother's Day in the U.S.A., the May 6 Wall Street Journal
>reports: "Edelman Financial Services Inc., Fairfax, Va., figures that
>mothers typically perform tasks from 17 occupations, including chef, social
>worker, psychologist, and property manager. It claims the combined median
>annual salary for mother's multitasking should be more than $500,000."

Though it is often said (by marxists and other leftists) that capital
ruthlessly encroaches upon our non-commercial relationships, in the case of
domestic labor, the case has been much overstated. 'Everything solid' does
not melt in thin air, when it comes to 'women's work.'

The paradox of selfless devotion expected of mothers in the ideological
world of competitive individualism is both what makes women's lives
difficult and what makes even the simplest demand for gender equality
couched in terms of liberal feminism a revolutionary one.

Yoshie