Greetings Economists, In general care-giving work, strong ties of that sort limit the range of women's actions. One can of course if one is rich take the path of nannies, and assorted hired care givers to free oneself from that sort of obligation. There are chains in care giving based upon the emotional ties to children, parents, siblings, etc. that usually have so loosened for most men it does not matter. Women on the whole do very much like taking care of a child, while recognizing it takes enormous amounts of their attention, as does a husband, or other family. On Oct 15, 2006, at 2:42 PM, michael a. lebowitz wrote:
Was/is there something systemic that thwarts the emergence of women as leaders in these?
Doyle; The work world limits caring ties at the work place as a source of corruption. Hence experience in one area leaves one bereft in another. This then limits how well women can build the mass base of support for something they cherish. Care giving, or emotion building structure is not addressed by Marxism directly. Alienation refers to loss of emotional ties in work. The oft said grinding down of social ties in capitalism to the individual is another. Further work being so different means that women will face a double life going back and forth in their allegiances. If the kid is sick and the boss wants your time sort of thing. They heavily contradict each other. We are talking about a mass base of women from which leadership is drawn. Those women who don't have strong care giving work loads are a small minority because men don't support their presence in a care giving manner, the style of work that means, and therefore women who have the resources must then succeed doubly well against men whose time is more devoted to that careless socializing. We generally all have known this. The other side of the story then is a clarity about a socialist caregiving framework that fulfills a need for close intimacy ties. Not so much going to school and child care, a framework which includes for example sexuality care giving out side the traditional family. Doyle
