Wifework: What Marriage Really Means for Women

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Today, the very ground on which marriage rests has shifted. What do women today expect from marriage and family life and what do they expect to offer in return? Perhaps most importantly of all, how do their expectations about married life match up to reality?

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This book looks at all the things in marriage that make a relationship unequal - there are no conclusions as to who's fault it is but an awful lot to think about. In one way or another I expect my wife to cook my dinner and do the ironing, but only in the same way that she expects me to rennovate our house and sort out any correspondence. This was not imposed on her, but is in fact her preference for household duties. DEFINED BY: author Susan Maushart, who says it's "the unwritten contract into which a woman enters upon marriage. The job description most of us were determined would never apply to us".

odds of the wife working decreases as the predictor increases. clear use oddsrat4 , clear tabulate inc wifework Feminists and policymakers often ask sex workers whether we would have sex with our clients if we were not being paid. Work is thus re-inscribed as something so personally fulfilling you would pursue it for free. The question of whether fathers matter so terribly much after all - particularly after controlling for the crucial variable of economic contribution - remains unanswered. In a sense, it hardly matters. True, false, or unanswerable, the notion has profoundly infiltrated our public consciousness. And in doing so it has dislodged yet another plank in the foundation of monogamy as an essential social institution.Anti-prostitution feminists and even policymakers often ask sex workers whether we would have sex with our clients if we were not being paid. Work is thus re-inscribed as something so personally fulfilling you would pursue it for free. Indeed, this understanding is in some ways embedded in much anti-prostitution advocacy through the prevalence of unpaid internships in such organizations. Equality Now, a multimillion-dollar anti-prostitution organization, instructs applicants that their internships will be unpaid (adding that “we are unable to arrange housing or visas”). Ruhama advertises numerous volunteer roles that could easily be paid jobs. In 2013 Turn Off the Red Light, an Irish anti-prostitution NGO consortium, advertised for an intern who would not be paid the minimum wage. The result of these unpaid and underpaid internships is that the women who are most able to build careers in the women’s sector—campaigning and setting policy agendas around prostitution—are women who can afford to do unpaid full-time work in New York and London. In this context, it is hardly a surprise that the anti-prostitution movement as a whole has a somewhat abstracted view of the relationship between work and money.