Thursday 7 January 2021

Money value of housework

The article, “A nod to recognizing the value of housework”  by Kalpana Karunakaran (5.1.21 )has raised various issues connected with monetising house work. Giving respect the demands of  women activists at the global level ,from time to time , several attempts were made by the economists to measure house work’s money value. But those theories  propounded  were out rightly rejected due to practical difficulties and complications  involved in measuring house work. Women do not consider house work as “onerous of women”   and render them with love and devotion in the interest of their families welfare . Mutiple tasks  they render through out their life time without fixed time hours of work,  intervals , holidays,  retirement and bonus like factory workers . Yet,  they do it tirelessly for love and welfare of their families  which can never be measured monetarily.  They are proud of their ability to “manage” them ( 8 tasks) as far as possible. What they expect in  return  for their life long duties is recognition and appreciation of the family members and division of  labour  among the family members to reduce their burden. What nations can do to honour home makers is fixing yearly or monthly bonus or money gift as per the income level of  partners in life   through suitable laws . This would give them some sort of recognition to their selfless work  and financial  independence over such amounts paid on regular basis.

 

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