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wages for housework  

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  • Wages for housework is a proposal to compensate for work done in the private or domestic sphere. Such work includes, but is not limited to, providing household services that facilitate the laborer's entry into the public workplace (cooking, cleaning, etc.), reproductive activities such as bearing and rearing children, and caring for elderly parents and other dependent persons. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society; Wages for Housework]

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