MaitresseEden
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all I'd heard out of femenists is that all women should strive to match men in the work force, and in every other venue. Not leaving choice to women but demanding the equivalency of men's roles
Thanks FirmFare
Feminism wants woman to have equal access to things held in the arena of the "men's domain" Make no mistake, woman don't want to be Men, but we do want to be able to choose to do anything they do, and viceversa allow men the freedom to do whatever it is we do.
like any movemen, there will be radical extremeists. In the beginning of the femiinst movement (1st wave, we are now in the 3rd) Woman had no role models for anything other that subjects of the partriarchy so the naturally imitadated that group which was in power. Most did not like it, and in fact today you find that most feminists do not want to be like men, or no longer feel the need to emulate them in order to be considered as equals. When women entered the male dominant workforce they had to prove themselves and unfortunatly that was often done by being more male like. This condition still exists in some careers and to some degree today, Regardless, we should esteem and treasure those woman we know who are blazing the trails (still today) and choosing to live life on the road less travelled. They are raising the standarsa and bar for the generations to come.
One of the problems that arose when women entered the workforce is that they still had to maintain another job, that of housewife, which often had little or no value. In essence they worked two jobs and the man one. Modern day feminist seek to recognize the inequality that exists in that situation, and seek for understanding that all work has value, and that subjective tasks need not be limited on the basis of gender.
Below (slightly different topic but related) is something about the value of housewives. Ask yourself, if you earn your keep, or pay for your keeper.
Ms. Eden
Housewives .... how much are they worth?
3 July 2000
Reporter: Martin King
Homemakers have traditionally been an unrecognized and unrewarded workforce. What are their skills and time really worth?A recent Melbourne University study has calculated how much a homemaker would be worth according to the work undertaken.Professor Duncan Ironmonger and his team from the Household Research Unit asked three homemakers to keep diaries of their daily duties and then applied hourly rates to their various tasks.These tasks included child minding, cooking, cleaning, gardening, dog walking and chauffeuring.
For instance, for driving the children to activities a chauffeur would get paid $16.40/hour; for reading to the children in bed a child career would earn $16.80/hour, and for preparing dinner a kitchen hand would get $15.50/hour.Professor Ironmonger's team concluded that, using current wages as a guide, a homemaker's work would be worth about $64,000 per annum. Mary Crooks from the Victorian Women's Trust says it's about time stay-at-home mums got the recognition they deserve. "It's about cultural change, it's about recognizing that it's a legitimate economic activity," she says.
Housewives: their earning power
3 July 2000
Food and drink preparation and clean-up: $15.50 (Cost Per Hour)
Laundry, ironing etc: $15.10
Other housework eg.Cleaning and vacuuming: $14.90
Gardening, lawn and pool care: $14.40
Pet, animal care: $17.00
Home maintenance/improvement, car care: $17.70
Household paperwork, bills etc: $17.80
Transport and associated travel: $16.40
Child care: $16.80
Purchasing and associated travel: $16.20
Average mother's work time (in hours per week)
Domestic activities: 24.8
Child care: 18.1
Shopping: 7.0
Voluntary work: 2.0
Total Household Work: 51.9
Paid Work (full-time/part-time/casual): 12.8
Total all work: 64.7 hours per week
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