Does Housework Actually Pay Women More Than Their Job?
Looking at the non-monetary value of domestic labor reveals women in households with a male breadwinner could actually come out ahead.
Over the past few years, I’ve been transitioning out of feminism. Or at least, the interpretation of feminism that I learned while working a traditional 9to5 job.
My progressive disdain for feminist ideology didn’t spontaneously happen overnight nor was it the byproduct of an isolated event. Rather, my evolution has been the result of my own self-growth journey.
The professional adversity I’ve faced in my career hasn’t been the result of the patriarchy, it’s been a consequence of the bill of false goods feminism sold me. Rather than finding the independence, success, and fulfillment that I had been promised by taking a prestigious job behind a desk, I found nothing but emptiness.
I wasn’t a victim of the patriarchy and I never have been. I’ve been a victim of my own narcissism. I heeded the calls by the matriarchs to lean in and demand my worth, but that only fanned the flames of my ego. It engulfed me in entitlement and self-righteousness, leading me to beli…