It s Time We Start Valuing Womenâs Household Work by Paying Homemakers
Paying salaries to women for housework can give women respect, recognition, dignity and empowerment. The question then is, who will pay for it?
Chhaya Kharade, 36, an unemployed farm labourer makes tea inside her house in Chincholi, India, March 12, 2019. Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui
â Silvia Federici,
Wages Against Housework (1975)
Shashi Tharoor tweeted on January 5, 2021, âI welcome @ikamalhaasanâs idea of recognising housework as a salaried profession, w/the state govt paying a monthly wage to homemakers. This will recognise & monetise the services of women homemakers in society, enhance their power & autonomy & create near-universal basic income.â
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Silvia Federici has been warning for decades of what happens when we undervalue domestic labor.
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