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How is it that women working outside the home is better than women working inside the home? Depends on your definition of better. Ignoring difficult to measure
by bh23ha 17y ago
How is it that women working outside the home is better than women working inside the home?
Depends on your definition of better. Ignoring difficult to measure benefits and focusing on easy to measure ones like economic output, it is easy to see how outside the home there's more opportunity to produce a lot more toasters, cars, etc, then inside the home. Unless you happen to live in a factory!
Concerning children's education, one need only point to US literacy rates from 1850 to the present to see that the two (women working, children educated) are not connected.
Really? And isn't comparing "work" before 1925 (arbitrarily picked) and after kind of like comparing apples and oranges?
- patrickgzill 17y agoThe reason I chose 1850 to the present is that it was well past the chaos of the American Revolution and yet far enough away in time to show a trend. Further this time period covers the change from nearly all women working inside the home (or working on the family farm), to many working outside the home. Many posters seem to have missed my point; perhaps I could have stated it clearer. To restate it, there is little causation between women working outside the home and whether or not children are educated; and if there is, the Economist article quotes no sources to establish that.