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I have worked for nearly four decades as an economist and count me almost as long to the left feminists. When I was a quarter of a century for the first time was dealing with the time spent on paid and unpaid work, I realized that my ideas almost exactly corresponded to the working conditions of men: Then the whole work distributed to a third unpaid and two-thirds of paid work. While this is still the case today - for men but not for women. For them it's the other way around: they work far more often unpaid. Why, so I began to ask me, I came merely to this, in the truest sense of the word de-ranged idea about the work in the company? I had to watch as a child, as a young woman every day something different and was faced as a parent of a child of primary school age with very different size ratios of paid and unpaid work than I thought feminism and men it as an economist. That was the beginning for me, myself intensively with the gender history of political economy - to deal thinking - even the left.
Also in the eighties, I wrote on the occasion of May 1st edition of "Poch-Zeitung" a text for the unpaid feminism and men labor of women. A comrade feminism and men asked angrily what unpaid work with the 1st May installment took to do. I then found the question quite stupid and not answered. Even today I only had a contradictory answer ready: When I look at the debate within the organizations that the first Celebration of May, I have to admit that unpaid work is really almost nothing to do with the day's work. As an economist, for me is clear: It has - would! - Very much to do with each other.
So far my strange schizophrenic situation feminism and men that continues for me as a leftist, feminist and economist for over a quarter of a century, and for me until now no less irritating, just become different, and the debate has become rather trite - a permanent incompatibility feeling. Mainly left theorists yawn when they hear about it, and be satisfied, the misery of the world to analyze the almost same categories as when we in groups "Capital" and Ernest Mandel read and us and on the first oil crisis the seemingly impending new world order involved, there were no statistics on unpaid work and the term working relationship had not been invented. Waiting for the crisis
But I have to take a number of reasons based on my and other economic analyzes that the current (capitalist) development on a major crisis of paid and unpaid care economy feminism and men (see box) is heading to a crisis that us new ways old issues of feminist economics faced. It concerns the activities of the women par excellence: the paid and unpaid personal services, the associated standard of living and new forms of alienation and standardized management of working, and the impoverishment of everyday life. I can rely on the tendencies of capitalist development: feminism and men You will ensure the return of past feminist economics debate.
Nevertheless, I find the situation quite disturbing, because this debate is very slow starts despite rapid developments. I always assumed critical analyzes were also there to better understand new developments and to provide aids thinking, so that we are able to act politically. But then the appropriate analysis should be made timely and publicly discussed.
Politically, I am concerned at present the large feminism free public debate on an important aspect of the care economy, namely the sick and especially feminism and men the long-term care and health care costs. Discussions will be conducted as if there had never been feminist issues. Likewise scares me the platitude of the public and scientific debate on the reconciliation of work and family. feminism and men Society Critical questions are rarely asked. It is only from the though correct assumption that women will forever be financially disadvantaged because of unpaid feminism and men work in the employment market feminism and men and to the men, if not as quickly as nurseries and daycare centers are being built. We have conceived forty years ago. But this compatibility issue is really the only thing we should consider if the relationship between paid and unpaid work on the topic is? More and better feminism and men paid employment, less discrimination and genuine career opportunities in the banking, pharmaceutical, nanotechnology, computer science feminism and men industry, in the Catholic Church, in football and cultural organizations and less hassle