Mother's Day, Class War Edition

[sabotabby]

The average full-time mom, if compensated for her labour, would be making $138,095 a year.

A single mother on social assistance in Ontario gets $950 a month. The average rent for a two-bedroom apartment is $1,050.

Happy Mother's Day!

Comments

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

your hotlinking has resulted in this:

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Haha, apparently their hotlinking warning can't be hotlinked. It says go to gutenberg.org/howto-link for linking their pics.

[sabotabby]

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[streetdreams.livejournal.com]

It's $457 a month for moms on assistance here. Awesome.

[sabotabby]

That's insane.

[esizzle.livejournal.com]

Maybe they should make cards that say "Happy Slavery Day". I'd totally sign that to my mum.

[ironed_orchid]

Not specific enough. How about "Happy Domestic Slavery Day"?

[troubleinchina.livejournal.com]

O.O

I...

That's insane!

[sabotabby]

So many things make so little sense when you think about it.

[threeliesforone.livejournal.com]

i have a problem with the term "full-time mom." it kinda implies that mothers who also work outside the home are only part-time. i don't think it's possible to be a part-time mother, all in all.

otherwise, your post is bang on. as usual.

[sabotabby]

Good point. I took it from the article, and I suppose it refers to SAHM who do the bulk of parenting (as opposed to splitting the work equally with their partners or hiring help). But there's probably a better term.

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

Because so many married couples split the second shift equally.

[threeliesforone.livejournal.com]

exactly. it's all just so problematic.

[threeliesforone.livejournal.com]

i figured as much. everytime i see the term in an article, i cringe.

i tend to take such things personally. my mom full-time worked for awhile before she got really sick & couldn't work anymore. i wouldn't classify her as a "part-time mom" by any means.

[roter-terror.livejournal.com]

Good post, and that image is too damn cute. I counter:





The crap kids put their mothers through. :-\

[sabotabby]

That poor dog in the second picture looks exhausted. :(

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

First article very interesting, thanks - if I'm still at UWE next year, that little snippet's making it into my Labour Market Discrimination lecture.

(Though some of 'em'll still manage to interpret it as "mothers get paid less because the time they've taken off work means they have less skills and experience" *sigh*)

[sabotabby]

That's always the counter-argument. That, and "women choose careers that pay less," which is utterly backward thinking.

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

The flaw being that the CVs were identical other than the PTA officer thing, and showed uninterrupted work records.

women choose careers that pay less

Ah yes, the Deliberately Blind school of economics. Workers are paid according to their Marginal Product, which is determined by the underlying cost structures, firms and workers are rational, so if women end up in careers with lower wages it must be because those careers intrinsically involve lower marginal products, and women somehow have an inbuilt preference for that sort of work which compensates the lower wages.

I don't think many economists actually believe that these days, but showing exactly why it's rubbish can be tricky, and hampered by the underlying assumptions of Neo-classical economics - rationality, treating the structure of employment and of firms as a given rather than as socially and politicaly determined, etc.

[sadie-sabot.livejournal.com]

Every time I see that thing about the fiull time mom's potential wage, I think, well, what about working moms? we do ALL OF THAT SHIT too. Seriously. We just do it in less time.

I am more and more on board witht eh global women's strike/wages for housework people, for reals.

anywayz. I like the picture of the kitties!

[sabotabby]

Every time I see that thing about the fiull time mom's potential wage, I think, well, what about working moms? we do ALL OF THAT SHIT too. Seriously. We just do it in less time.

And get paid less for the waged job, usually.

[sadie-sabot.livejournal.com]

right? although, I work in a feild that is something like 90% women; that is, 90% of the people doing this job (legal assistant) are women. and of course most of the bosses (lawyers) are, yep. men.