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We should have fought to split the productive and reproductive labor 50 50. Each spouse working a 20 hour work week and coming home to do half the domestic labor.
Split the reproductive labor? Make the man carry the baby for half the pregnancy, like in that Arnold Schwarzenegger movie?
Reproductive labor as in labor that is necessary but takes place outside the economy. Not being pregnant with the baby, but being on call for the baby at night. Taking the kid to the doctor. Cleaning and cooking. Managing what all the household needs and figuring out how it's going to get done. Shit like that
That seems like a really weird phrase for household labor and parenting, tbh
Yeah but I'm not the one who coined it. It goes back at least as far as Sylvia Federici. The idea is that it's the labor of reproducing society
I have been lucky enough to split child raising labor fairly evenly with my wife (after the pregnancy at least), though it’s been at the expense of retirement savings and lost potential earnings.
There are lifelong divisions of labor that we should all have the freedom to share, but capitalism and its billionaires is always trying to squeeze every penny from most of us and adding needless stress with artificial scarcity and profit taking to fuck all of us, but especially women and those with less political power (at this stage, that’s 95% of us by my estimate).