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I found this article the most interesting out of all of them. Josephine Conger-Koneko takes a very hard line on the position that women should be paid for their housework. I also found it interesting how she equivocated a woman's life in the home doing housework for her husband as the life of a slave. She seems to be a bit radical in her discussion of women being paid for household duties. I also found it striking that Koneko argues that a husband should go to his employer and ask for wages for his wife at home doing the housework and how men getting married is actually benefical more for the employer because then he will have a continuing work force. Did women during this time believe they should be paid for work, and if after reading this, did woman's groups advocate paid labor for women working in the home? -abratchi | I found this article the most interesting out of all of them. Josephine Conger-Koneko takes a very hard line on the position that women should be paid for their housework. I also found it interesting how she equivocated a woman's life in the home doing housework for her husband as the life of a slave. She seems to be a bit radical in her discussion of women being paid for household duties. I also found it striking that Koneko argues that a husband should go to his employer and ask for wages for his wife at home doing the housework and how men getting married is actually benefical more for the employer because then he will have a continuing work force. Did women during this time believe they should be paid for work, and if after reading this, did woman's groups advocate paid labor for women working in the home? -abratchi | ||
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| + | This idea, as the blurb before Conger-Koneko's part noted, is still "squarely on the feminist agenda," (81) although these days it's discussed more in terms of GNP and economic value of wages for housework, raising children, etc. Although the all caps got very annoying and Conger-Koneko's rhetoric and tactless word choice ("ignorance and stupidity" 84) probably alienated more people than it convinced, she presents a good point that deserved and continues to deserve discourse and action. --Sarah Smethurst | ||
'''Margaret Sanger’s epiphany over birth control – 1936''' | '''Margaret Sanger’s epiphany over birth control – 1936''' | ||
