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But the women were working before, they were just labouring inside the home. Society is realising that having all the women become domestic workers by default i
by solveit 5y ago
But the women were working before, they were just labouring inside the home. Society is realising that having all the women become domestic workers by default is a massive misallocation of resources and correcting course. That is a positive socioeconomic shift.
- woodruffw 5y agoYep, that's why I tried to distinguish between "workforce participation" and "labor." Women have always labored; they just haven't been paid for it historically. And it is indeed a positive socioeconomic shift. But it isn't the kind that the AEI means to imply: they're a neoconservative foundation that's attempting to post-hoc justify deregulation and de-clawing of federal agencies under false premises.
- jimbokun 5y agoAll of that domestic work is being done, in addition to having two full time jobs outside the home. With roughly the same standard of living. Hard to say that's an unalloyed positive.
- woodruffw 5y agoThis is an excellent point that I hadn't thought to make.
- mcguire 5y agoIs it? Or is it an artifact of how economic measures are unable to capture important socioeconomic factors? Perhaps the only misallocation is the assumption that women were domestic workers and domestic workers were women.
- solveit 5y agoThat is the misallocation I am referring to. Some women should be theoretical physicists and some men should be domestic workers. The unrealised gains must have been enormous.