Re:Why Women Leave Engineering (2011) [pdf]
by danharaj on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @10:29AM
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> when women weren't expected to be a significant economic contribution to the household.
This is wrong. One, domestic labor is still economic activity. Economy used to refer solely to the activities of maintaining a household. Ironic how it has been transformed so that unpaid labor is not considered economic.
Two, proletariat women have always been expected to and have contributed a wage to the household. This is on top of being expected to perform all unpaid domestic labor. The idea of a woman who only works at home was a middle class and upper class phenomenon.
A strong impact on how women's work was divided was the advance in technology that vastly reduced the amount of domestic labor required to maintain a household.
This is wrong. One, domestic labor is still economic activity. Economy used to refer solely to the activities of maintaining a household. Ironic how it has been transformed so that unpaid labor is not considered economic.
Two, proletariat women have always been expected to and have contributed a wage to the household. This is on top of being expected to perform all unpaid domestic labor. The idea of a woman who only works at home was a middle class and upper class phenomenon.
A strong impact on how women's work was divided was the advance in technology that vastly reduced the amount of domestic labor required to maintain a household.