Work

Should people treat unpaid work at home as equally important as paid work?

For

Parenting and housework keep society functioning.

Against

Paid work funds survival and should be valued more.

Anonymous excerpts, translated where noted.

For

  • “being a SAHM is a totally valuable and reasonable choice.”
    RedditOriginal language: English
  • “Domestic work is still work and those jobs are historically undervalued”
    RedditOriginal language: English

Against

  • “assigning the full time salary of several professions to that of a SAHM undermines the entire argument”
    RedditOriginal language: English
  • “the only people in a position to value the work of a SAHM is her family or whoever she’s caring for.”
    RedditOriginal language: English
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