Wages for Housework

http://www.newint.org/issue181/wages.htm
http://www.newint.org/features/1988/03/05/wages/
Date Written:  1988-03-01
Publisher:  New Internationalist
Year Published:  1988
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX7938

'If women were paid for all they do, there'd be a lot of wages due', sang women campaigners in the 1970s. But demanding money for unpaid domestic work is a sad indictment of the Women's Movement, argues Zoë Fairbairns - because it demonstrates that feminists have lost the battle to force men to do their share of the cleaning.

Subject Headings

• Division of Labour
• Domestic Labour
• Family Income
• Family Support
• Housework
• Men
• Social Security
• Wages for Housework
• Women's Incomes
• Women's Issues