Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Pay People to Cook at Home

Pay People to Cook at Home - NYTimes.com:
"I believe the solution to getting people into the kitchen exists in a long-forgotten proposal.
In the 1960s and ’70s, when American feminists were fighting to get women out of the house and into the workplace, there was another feminist arguing for something else.
Selma James, a labor organizer from Brooklyn, pushed the idea of wages for housework. Ms. James, who worked in a factory as a young woman and later became a housewife and a mother, argued that household work was essential to the American economy and wondered why women weren’t being paid for it. "

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