Re: value and gender

[joanna bujes <jbujes@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

> That's how things are in a number of households in many societies,
> but men would benefit if their wives made wages equal to theirs or
> higher wages than theirs and if combined incomes could purchase the
> housework services on the market whose quality is better than what
> the wives' unpaid labor could accomplish.  Men would also benefit if,
> alternatively, the housework services were provided by social
> programs.
> --

The economist bug has bitten you too Yoshie. Why call them "housework
services"? Why turn it into a featureless, interchangable
commodity...and then argue that it provides better "quality" -- very odd.

Joanna