A Job? Well Done.

One of the ways that mothers seek to talk about the value of their mothering is to say: this is my job. This is hard, skilled work that takes up much of my time and brainspace; this is something that matters and produces an end result: this is a job with the value of other people’s jobs, it’s just not (mostly, directly) paid. But when we say it’s a job, we do two things: firstly, we accept that value to the economy is “real” value, and only by being “just like” that can mothering (and other pa...

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