The Unproductive Housewife: Her Evolution in Nineteenth-Century Economic Thought

摘要: In 1878 the officers of Association for Advancement Women (AAW) protested U.S. Census's notion that "homekeepers" were not gainful workers. a letter to Congress they wrote, "We pray your honorable body make provision more careful and just enumeration women as laborers producers." They complained women's domestic efforts "not even incidentally named in any wise affecting causes increase or decrease population wealth."' (See Appendix.) short, AAW quarreled with official assumption housewives unproductive workers because earned no pay. Census data consist ordered sets numbers. appear objective value free, but their meaning grows out socially constructed concepts are laden cultural political values. "Statistical reports exemplify process by which visions