Housework as Part of GNP
With a waged work force in record numbers, women are now expected to work a double day. In every area including legal, civil and economic rights women are treated as charity cases. This bill seeks to establish not only that the work of full-time homemakers should be counted as work productive to society, but will reflect in national accounts the full extent of contributions of women working a double day. The bill also calls for a count of the unwaged work of men.
MARGARET PRESCOD, International Black Women for Wages for Housework, Los Angeles
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