Karen Kornbluh, long a hero of mine, has written an article for the current issue of Ms. Magazine. She notes the 50% workforce participation rate for women, and hails this moment as a critical opportunity to update our infrastructure, i.e. employment benefits, child care accessibility, income tax policy, and the Social Security system. Just as [...]
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Something for Everyone: Working or Not Working, The Basic Issues Are The Same
Why does MOTHERS, an organization that promotes the societal value of caregiving and protects the economic security of caregivers, concern itself so with issues arising from women in the paid labor force? It’s a good question. While noting that more mothers of young children work outside the home than don’t, we are not exclusively pro-”working [...]
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