This is actually an interesting piece I came across on the importance
and acknowledgement of housewives. Since family is a joint venture, do
you think housewives should receive salary??
The
role of women in the family and the workplace has been an issue of
great change and even greater implication throughout recent history.
Changing social constructions of gender roles and family roles has led
to a debate over the role of women in the home and the value or lack
thereof placed upon it[1]. If the role of women is no longer always in
the home should there be some compensation for those who do still agree
to remain housewives (or very occasionally househusbands) in return for
the work they do? The debate over housewives being paid for their work
is one of entitlement, economics and social engineering.
Although
this is a primarily a principled debate, one possible skeleton model
for this case would be to propose that all housewives would be given
equal salary from the government fund that is funded through tax payer
dollars. This would be carried out in the form of tax exemptions and tax
rebates that would be doled out via the institutions and processes
currently in place for tax returns, auditing etc. An example of this
would be the Internal Revenue Service in the United States or the Canada
Revenue Agency in Canada.
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