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An important read, though dull academic explanations were a bit of a slog to listen to
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She raises some good points and explains some concepts well—in some cases, better than anyone I’m else I’ve read—but at the end, I’m left asking “But how?” She argues (successfully) that economics has a history of ignoring women and women’s needs and women’s contributions and that a feminist lens needs to be applied to gain a truer, better understanding of economics, but she doesn’t have any suggestions for how to do this work—to apply this lens—successfully, or any suggestions for what it would look like to study and understand economics from this perspective.
challenging
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challenging
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who run the world??? GIRLS
unsurprisingly women are the backbone of the economy and get no credit for it!!
hahahahhahahahahahahhahaha i hate it here!
unsurprisingly women are the backbone of the economy and get no credit for it!!
hahahahhahahahahahahhahaha i hate it here!
oh sorry to my book club. reminded me of the beauty myth... a small handful of interesting thoughts buried in vague statistics and confidently stated opinion masquerading as Facts. also the sentence fragments. (see what I did there.) not sure if that was a function of the translation but it drove me absolutely bonkers.
In fairness I based my desire to read this book pretty solely on the title. I thought this would be an expansion on some of the ideas presented in Invisible Woman around how the gdp growth of the last decades can be partially explained by women joining the tracked workforce from the untracked household labor and perhaps work to define that untracked household labor and idk ask some interesting questions about the future of care work and how it should be valued despite the fact that it only works if it's cheap (I have a lot of questions about what happens at the Revolution... will my coffee always be $7 if I want my baristas to earn a living wage? childcare costs are sky high and yet centers close all the time on the brick of bankruptcy and health aides are impossible to find but underpaid and overworked; I could go on for ages, those are the people who cooked Adam Smith's dinner!! and eat the rich but what does that LOok like) anyway maybe I wanted too much but this was not it.
In fairness I based my desire to read this book pretty solely on the title. I thought this would be an expansion on some of the ideas presented in Invisible Woman around how the gdp growth of the last decades can be partially explained by women joining the tracked workforce from the untracked household labor and perhaps work to define that untracked household labor and idk ask some interesting questions about the future of care work and how it should be valued despite the fact that it only works if it's cheap (I have a lot of questions about what happens at the Revolution... will my coffee always be $7 if I want my baristas to earn a living wage? childcare costs are sky high and yet centers close all the time on the brick of bankruptcy and health aides are impossible to find but underpaid and overworked; I could go on for ages, those are the people who cooked Adam Smith's dinner!! and eat the rich but what does that LOok like) anyway maybe I wanted too much but this was not it.
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This book is pretty dry, but very interesting. Spoiler: it was his mom.
Honestly, I got the most information out of the epilogue, which really ties everything together, but I wish the author had expanded there, instead of other places.
Also, I could go the whole rest of my life without hearing the term "Economic Man" again.
Honestly, I got the most information out of the epilogue, which really ties everything together, but I wish the author had expanded there, instead of other places.
Also, I could go the whole rest of my life without hearing the term "Economic Man" again.