On 10/24/06, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 10/24/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The president said he was ready to decrease the working hours of
> > married women or women with children to make it easier for them to
> > have more children.
>
> Without pay cuts?
I'd bet that there would be no _hourly_ paycuts (unless they are
happening anyway), but that adds up to weekly pay cuts.
Appealing work time policy has been MIA almost everywhere. The truth
be told, lots of women -- especially women with young children --
prefer part-time to full-time work, as BBC suggested, not just in Iran
but most countries including rich ones, the preference being shaped by
an unequal division of care-giving labor. (So do some unconventional
young men, probably, except that social expectations that they should
be bread-winners don't allow them to express that preference.)
Women's need or desire for part-time work gets exploited by
capitalists, but labor seldom proposes its own work time policy that
makes sense for parents and allows workers to make work time flexible
on their own terms rather than capitalists'.
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Yoshie
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