unpaid
labor
1876 – Harriet Robinson-
Mass. The census does not include the services of the mother and daughter among
the paid vocations, though as is well known, in many instances they do all the housework of the family. They get no wages
and therefore do not appear among the ‘useful classes’ They are not earners but savers of money. A one-saver is
not a recognized factor either in political economy or in the State census
1946 – Hannah Mitchell
“ The Hard Way Up” No wonder it is so difficult to interest married
women in social reform. The modern demand for a 40 hour week seems like a job to the wife and mother who is lucky if hers
is only a 70 hour week
1970 – Royal Commission
the Status of Women
Married women the study emphasizes,
usually make a major contribution to the family through the provision of housekeeping and child-care services. These services
have an economic value, even though they are not included in the estimates of the Gross Domestic Product, because they cannot
yet be adequately measured. They represent an income in kind what is just as valuable to the family as cash income
1980 –Meg Luxton- More
than a Labour of Love- Three Generations of Women’s Work in the Home” –
Children are people but they
are also objects of labour…While children are young, child care is also full-timework
1981 – Rae Andre “Homemakers;
the forgotten workers”
Housewives have been told
that their contributions are priceless but they receive fewer of the benefits our society provides even its lowest paid members
– no salary, no unemployment insurance, no federal support, no pension
1975 – June Menzies
‘The Uncounted House; The Perception of Women in Policy Formulation
Women cannot attain economic equality as long
as the major economic role they perform is outside the economy and is disregarded in policy formulation. As long as we exclude
the household and the labour performed within it from the legitimate economic framework of our society, women cannot attain
equality and they will not be able to share in the benefits of society proportionately to the contribution they make of it
1978 – Monique Proulx
“Five Million Women: The value of household work”
Housewives are not considered
to be part of the productive labor force. The fact that their work is not included in the national accounts is a clear indication
of this. Nevertheless, their invisible and unpaid work ensures the maintenance and renewal of the current labour force at
the same time that it produces the next generation of workers
child
health/ stress/ illness/ medical
parenting,
children
Benjamin Bloom – By
the time a child reaches four he or she will have accumulated 50% of his or her mature intelligence
1940-s John Bowlby
What is believed to be essential
for mental health is that the infant and young child should experience a warm intimate and continuous relationship with his
mother (or permanent mother substitute) in which both find mutual satisfaction
dad/father
Richter- the words a father
speaks of his children in the privacy of the home are not overheard at the time but as in whispering galleries, they will
be clearly herd at the end and by posterity
money/
kids
There is only class in the
community that thinks more about money than the rich,a nd that is the poor- Oscar Wilde
A father is someone who
carries pictures where his money used to be – Lion
A mother is a person who,
seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie – Tenneva Jordan
Parents are people who bear
infants, bore teena-gers and board nearly-weds Paul V. Hale
Money is coined liberty –
Dostoevski’ The House of the Dead”
feminism,
women
A right is not what someone
gives you; it’s what no one can take away from you- Ramsey Clark
forced
dependency
The economic dependence of
women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race – Nellie
McClung
Women are frequently referred
to as poultry. We cluck at hen parties. When we aren’t henpecking men, we are egging them on. In youth we are chicks.
Mothers watch over their broods. Later we are old biddies with an empty-nest syndrome.
Is it just a coincidence that so many women’s ages are chicken feed? (Association of Operating Nurses Journal)
legal
avenues – law justice
freedom
Justice is the tolerable
accommodation of the conflicting interests of society – Learned Hand
the bias
against being homemaker
Women are decorative sex;
they never have anything to say but they say it charmingly – Oscar Wilde
Women are one and all a set
of vulture s- Petronius “Satyricon”
Home is a charitable institution
for indolent women. August Strindberg
When one has been threatened
with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor. Mrs. Thomas Carlyle
The fundamentals of justice
are that no one shall suffer wrong and that the public good be served – Cicero
Delay of justice is injustice
– Walter Savage Landor
Let us have faith that right
makes might – Abraham Lincoln
I disapprove of what you
have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it - Voltaire
In giving rights to others
which belong to them we give rights to ourselves and to our country –J. F. Kennedy
economics/
productivity
Money is the
mother’s milk of politics – Jesse Unruh
unpaid
labor
the moral problem of our
age is concerned with the love of money, with the habitual appeal to the money motive n ine-tenths of the activities of life
– J. M. Keynes (use?)
Keeping house is like threading
beads on a string with no knot at the end – Capper’s Weekly
child
health/ stress/ illness/ medical
parenting,
children
What’s done to children,
they will do to society – Karl Menninger
Children can forgive their
parents for being wrong, but weakness sends them elsewhere for strength- Leontine Young
Home is where life makes
up its mind – Hazen Werner
