Because our governments rarely if ever account for the cost of unpaid–mostly domestic, or home-based–labor, both physical and emotional, it is especially important that our social movements do. Emotional labor and unpaid domestic work, caring for children and elders, and the household, must not be assumed to be women’s work, or for those of financial privilege, delegated solely to women of color. This article examines the ways in which failing to provide government subsidized childcare has historically hamstrung the feminist movement. The lesson being that not only should the government support single parents and parents who work, by choice or not, but that men must share the responsibility of unpaid labor.
– Brett Goldberg
Read the article via California Magazine.
