Just Another Job

The reading "Just Another Job" describes the "commodification of domestic labor due to women in the US and Europe leaving the home and joining the workforce. Since women are now in the workplace child care, cleaning, cooking and other domestic responsibilities are now being outsourced to people outside the family rather than being taken care of by the wife/mother. It makes sense that those who are taking these jobs doing the outsourced responsibilities are not paid very well because in order for working to make fiscal sense for women, they must be paying the domestic laborers significantly less then they make. That however does not make the low wages fair to those doing the work. Growing up my mother worked part-time, which meant there was always a nanny, to take care of my sister and I, and a housekeeper, to look after the house. I can say from experience that these women deserved more respect for the work that they did, especially the ones who had to take care of me and my sister, cause we were definitely a lot of work.