Recognizing the Unseen Labor: The Value of Stay-at-Home Moms and Wives

Being a stay at home mom is a job
Being a stay at home wife is a job
Taking care of the house while your husband provides for you is a job
when a woman stays at home while her husband provides for her and isn’t working
she is working and her husband is covering the cost of that work
when you pay a nanny to take care of your kids
when you drop your kids off at daycare and pay the daycare
when you pay a housekeeper
a house manager to take care of the house
that’s considered work all of the work that those people are doing