Cross posted at Notes from a Small Place. This post is part of an ongoing series of posts I'm doing regarding issues related to the body, gender, sexuality, and self identity. It will be going online later this week at Notes... but if you're interested in the conversation, you're welcome to stop by and join us. It's still pretty early so you haven't missed much!
One of the main arguments made by both Naomi Wolfe and Luce Irigaray is that a major area in which women are oppressed in our culture is that of work. In the past 50 years many women have joined the workforce, but their work load around the house has not lessened in any way. As a result women are now doing twice as much work as men (at least) while receiving payment for only half of that work. And the payment they do get is considerably lower than the wage a man would get for the same work.
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