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| EXCERPTS"A central goal of women's liberation is that responsibility for family care ... be shared more equally between men and women and individuals, families and society as a whole. Responsibility for health care is a major part of this burden of family care that feminism is fighting to share more equally." "I watched my mother run around during a 3 or 4 year period trying to take care of her own mother and her mother-in-law ... It really illustrated to me how the unpaid labor of women is what keeps this system going and how we need this labor to get paid and shared around..." "In the U.S. when feminists fought against the concept of the family wage, where the man supposedly supported the family and women's employment was considered undesirable and 'pin money', we did so without the kind of 'social wage' that was already in place as an alternative in ... European countries." "The "social wage," from public education to childcare to eldercare to national healthcare for everyone, are programs as important to freeing women from unpaid, unwilling service in the home, in the family and in the nation as is the right to contraception and abortion. |
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