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But i do find it interesting how in, for instance, Das Capital Marx talks at length about how the factory system conditions forced women into working. This would occur for the vast majority of the day (12-14 hours) and women would be kept away from thier young children who would often die of neglect or from consuming household opium products accidentally.

Nowadays we can chose not to have children, but that presents some difficult issues for the future... But when Betty Friedan published the Feminine Mystique it was really against the whole first wave of feminism that decried how factory work took women away from thier families and into the workplace. This upper class bourgois woman whos kids were taken care of by maids noticed that her and her upper class friends felt purposeless and encouraged an ideology that devalued motherhood as important work for the production of society at large (probably the most important work that can be done period). Not to mention that the stay at home mom was really a myth before then, and women who did not sell thier labor to the market often did volunteer labor in important institutions like churches, charities, etc.

This is the central problem for the marriage in capitalist economy, proletarian men work to access money to purchase resources (rather than say, a peasant land holding where husband and wife both do important work to maintain the home, land, and family and procure survival). Since men have more resources women are compelled to marry to acess those resources; womens worth becomes tied to her ability to marry a high earner and associated with the qualities that tend to serve that aim (beauty, charm, agreeableness etc).

The modern system says "the feminist thing now is that a woman's worth will be tied to her ability to earn money or credentials in a career" and what does the ideology lead to: earning money is feminist so sex work is feminist, credentials are feminist so sacrificing your integrity to climb institutional ladders is feminist, heading the state department and destabilizing Libya is feminist, and so on.

But i do find it interesting how in, for instance, Das Capital Marx talks at length about how the factory system conditions forced women into working. This would occur for the vast majority of the day (12-14 hours) and women would be kept away from thier young children who would often die of neglect or from consuming household opium products accidentally.

Nowadays we can chose not to have children, but that presents some difficult issues for the future... But when Betty Friedan published the Feminine Mystique it was really against the whole first wave of feminism that decried how factory work took women away from thier families and into the workplace. This upper class bourgois woman whos kids were taken care of by maids noticed that her and her upper class friends felt purposeless and encouraged an ideology that devalued motherhood as important work for the production of society at large (probably the most important work that can be done period). Not to mention that the stay at home mom was really a myth before then, and women who did not sell thier labor to the market often did volunteer labor in important institutions like churches, charities, etc.