Family takes unpaid housework for granted. It also means undervaluing those who do this essential work for pay. With reference to the play ‘Mother’s Day’ , express your opinion.
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Explanation:
Valuing housework is not only about so-called housewives. It equally is about single parents and two-earner couples who need child-care during their paying jobs and lack time for housework after they get home. It is about domestic workers who do get paid, yet face inadequate wages, protections and respect. Devaluing housework for one’s own family also means discounting its importance when done by others. These points suggest a broader agenda than “wages for housework,” one that acknowledges and crosses differences in family composition, race and class.
Many problems flow from how the government measures economic well-being. In short, it privileges cash. If someone earns $15,000 and spends it on child care, the government sees income earned to help support the family. But if she cares for her kids herself, this economic activity disappears: no income, no work, no spending.
This economic invisibility has profound consequences. Unlike the low-wage worker, the “housewife” gets no credit for contributing to the household economy. That means no protection against future disability, unemployment or retirement via Social Security or related social insurance programs. Her labor also gets ignored by tax credits and other policies that support “working families” who struggle to make ends meet. Such problems can be addressed without providing a direct wage for housework.
Housework’s economic invisibility also harms those who cannot do it all themselves. Government poverty measurement still assumes that families have an unpaid adult staying home to do the housework. “Poverty” just means not having enough cash from a paid breadwinner to cover other needs. When that archaic assumption fails, there is no accounting for the financial and time burdens on employed adults who need to pay for housework or do it on the “second shift,” not just buy food and pay rent. The result is inadequate child care assistance and work-family conflict.
Finally, taking unpaid housework for granted means undervaluing those who do this essential work for pay. Historically, domestic workers have been excluded from many labor protections. Despite some progress, the Supreme Court recently gave that ignoble tradition a constitutional imprimatur by disparaging home care workers as “quasi,” not “full-fledged,” employees and undermining their collective bargaining rights. Even when public policies do support necessary domestic labor, they often pay absurdly low rates and constantly seek to shift work onto unpaid family members. This comes full circle when close kin are barred from getting paid for what would earn a stranger wages.
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