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> this seems to be typical sexism: there’s work at home which is paid, and work at home which is not

If it’s not paid, how do those doing it live?

Tax documents call the salary worker + home maker combo “household income”, which may be an appropriate way of thinking about the household getting paid and the household looking after the home.

This applies regardless of the genders of the happy couple, so I’m not sure it’s ‘sexism’.



There are two questions here: why is some work not recognized and compensated?

And: why is one sex doing less paid work and more unrecognized work?


Among same-gender couples, ‘sex’ doesn’t figure into it. Many make the homemaker choice.

Presumably the work is recognized.




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