The Point Is to Change the World by Andaiye;Alissa Trotz;

The Point Is to Change the World by Andaiye;Alissa Trotz;

Author:Andaiye;Alissa Trotz;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Book Network Int'l Limited trading as NBN International (NBNi)


The relationship between men and women in the waged workplace is established by their relationship within the household. Counting women’s unwaged work would provide the basis for establishing equity in pay and entitlements, and for working towards the recognition of childcare as a social responsibility as required by the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The burden of unwaged work falls particularly hard on certain groups of women—rural women in general and Amerindian women in particular; women with disabilities or who care for dependent relatives with disabilities; elderly women living on their own; and female heads of household caring alone for dependent children. There is an economic (not only a social or political or moral) cost to failing to provide for their needs.

Although I have concentrated on how counting unwaged work would reveal the cost of structural adjustment, it is equally true that it would reveal the cost of coping with militarism and war, natural disasters, massive migrations, intolerable debt, and in the case of Cuba, blockade.

HOW TO COUNT UNWAGED WORK

Methods for counting unwaged work are being developed and tested by a number of groups, including the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women. Basically, the possibilities envisaged are:

1. Replacement of services by measuring:

a) their market cost—how much it would cost to take all the services performed in/around the home into the market place;

b) their replacement cost—how much it would cost to get someone to come in to perform all the household jobs; or

2. Replacement of the woman by measuring her opportunity cost—how much a woman could earn in a job outside the home if she weren’t doing housework full-time.



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