Re: [Fwd: Re: "Family values"]

[Andrew Wayne Austin <aaustin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is an attempt to pass federal legislation in the United States
because of the clear evidence that women who have no children are being
preferred over women with children. With women coming into the workforce
over the past several decades, employers have selected those women who
they believe will consistently produce a greater amount of surplus-value
(women are superexploited, since their gender subordination allows
capitalists to provide less than the social necessary labor portion of
total value produced by women to women with the same qualifications and
skills as men). Parenthood has never much of a concern with fathers, since
mothers were there to care for the children -- but precisely because this
cultural arrangement is still in force, employers view mothers
differently, and thus discriminate against mothers. It would contrary to
the logic of capitalism to seek out mothers for workers given mothers
enter the workplace with (hopefully) a split loyalty. One hardly needs
proof of this, but if one wants proof, the U.S. Congress is presently
relying on several studies as well as a spate of discrimination suits
currently working their way through the courts. Because I regard the
matter as self-evident, I will rely on interested but skeptical parties to
find the evidence for themselves.

Andy
http://web.utk.edu/~aaustin