Women fought for the right to choose to work. Capitalism saw that as an opportunity to force both parents to work.
Now we have the worst of both worlds: wages are often too low to support a parent dedicated to caregiving, while two working parents are often not rich enough to pay for a full-time nanny.
Women fought for the right to choose to work. Capitalism saw that as an opportunity to force both parents to work.
Now we have the worst of both worlds: wages are often too low to support a parent dedicated to caregiving, while two working parents are often not rich enough to pay for a full-time nanny.
Domestic labor is still labor and one of the great victories of feminism is maternal leave.