![]() ![]() But the apparent consensus is mythical, for the reasons behind arriving at this opinion are diametrically opposite. Would anybody ever say that rape is acceptable? From the most complacent patriarch to the angriest feminist, all would declare rape to be a terrible crime. “Consider carefully the term 'rape' and its implications. This entire system functions on the assumption that women do housework for love. If tomorrow, every woman demanded to be paid for this work that she does, either the husband would have to pay her, or the employer would have to pay the husband. When you have an entire structure of unpaid labour buttressing the economy, then the sexual division of labour cannot be considered to be domestic and private it is what keeps the economy going. ![]() But the fact that he or she can come back to the workplace, the next day, depends on somebody else (or herself) doing a whole lot of work the employer does not pay for-cooking, cleaning, running the home. ![]() Consider this: the employer pays the employee for his or her labour in the workplace. ![]() “The sex-based segregation of labour is the key, to maintaining not only the family, but also the economy, because the economy would collapse like a house of cards if this unpaid domestic labour had to be paid for by somebody, either by the husband or the employer. ![]()
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