Reclaiming Time: Why Women Should Challenge the Productivity Industry
Getting beyond the viewpoint of efficiency
In this week’s Fairer Disputations original, Abigail Wilkinson Miller pushes back against prescriptions for productivity that fail to take take women’s bodies, minds, or work into account.
Reclaiming Time: Why Women Should Challenge the Productivity Industry
Abigail Wilkinson Miller
Women aren’t necessarily struggling because they have more responsibilities than men, but because their responsibilities don’t fit neatly into a productivity paradigm. Tasks that involve caring for others typically cannot be neatly checked off a list. The dishes will need to be washed again tomorrow (or, rather, after the next meal). The children’s feet will continue to grow. Birthdays, shockingly, come around year after year. There is a need for a way of talking about care and work and time that recognizes the meaning in the continuous work of noticing and maintaining, as well as the more obvious successes of the office and the boardroom.
This Week in Sex-Realist Feminism: Escaping Womanhood, Conservative Women, and Fixing the Dating Culture
This week: Laura Becker on attempting to become a gay man, Nina Welsch on why the first woman president will be a Republican, and Leah Libresco Sargeant on fixing our broken dating culture. Plus: the La Leche League doesn't care about real women, talking detransition, family stuff, wives and children trapped with men, and more!
From the Archives:
ICYMI: Ivana Greco’s bold proposal to help homemakers when they are ready to reenter the workforce.
Protecting the Home Front: Why We Need a “G.I. Bill” For Homemakers
Ivana Greco
“Making the link between homemakers and veterans reinforces that the former are not victims to be protected, but rather people who deserve to be rewarded for their valuable service.”