Radical feminists love to prattle about the value of unpaid work. Such martyrdom going on behind four walls and no financial appreciation. They churn out studies showing what their caring and cleaning services would be worth in the marketplace but don't want a husband, the only one with any interest in paying them to look after their own. So then they do the next best thing and use these specious surveys to demand the government pay them a wage (eg Prue Hyman's universal benefit for women).
Well, what do you know. It's official. Men do unpaid work too. British researchers have put the value of a father at NZ$17,000 a year. The services they provide include being a taxi-driver, a sports coach, a gardener, a home handyman and even housekeeper.
So a question for the feminists. Where should they send the bill?
Red Dwarf – #6 – S01E06: Me 2
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I (male) make the dinner 5 or 6 nights a week, and also help with the rest of the housework.
Where do I sign up for my gummint handout?
So do I. I also make the lunches for the whole family, do general housework etc etc. I want my share as well.
What some people don't understand, in my opinion, is that caring for a family and the home is a labour of love. You get nothing out of it except the knowledge that you have contributed to your family.
One more thing - if women are paid for housework, do can you fire them if they cook a crappy dinner ro don't iron shirts properly?
Brian Smaller
LOL Unfortunatly not Brian.
Feminists are the best at the art of one way traffic. ie wanting something but without any accountability or strings attached.
Lindsay, you've blatantly misrepresented Hyman's article, which is headed "A Universal Benefit Works for Women". She was writing about the benefits for women of a universal basic income. The article also points out that a UBI would not discriminate - by definition, everyone would get it. Now if you want to argue about UBI (which seems to be a dead issue, so not much point in that) go ahead, but don't depict it as 'wages for housework' only for women. It never was.
I believe John Howard introduced something like wages for housework in Australia - a payment to married mothers who are caring for children at home full-time.
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