Get to Work!
Get To Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World addresses many subjects that matter to many people. Work. Family. Justice. Power. Money. What drives the book is my clear commitment that paid work in the public world offers the best chance for people to live a flourishing life, and too many women are passing it up. It is a clear warning that something is very wrong, when it’s only women quitting their jobs – or doing anything not strictly dictated by biology.
Get to Work is a serious analysis of politics and power in the traditional family, not just another entry in the so-called “mommy wars.” If people pay attention to the unfairness it reveals, American society will have to change in profound and important ways, and the change will affect men as much as it does the women of the world. It will affect gay and lesbian people as well as heterosexuals. It will affect business and government as much as the family. It will affect religious traditional families that rest on arguments from the Bible as well as secular traditional families that rest on arguments from evolution. More on this in later days.
With subjects this important, there is bound to be a lot of heat – about my facts and analysis as well as the insights of others I will provide here. Women and men who are living the traditional life, those who face the issue coming down the road, people who make policy in government and in the market economy – all these players are going to have to deal with the call for present and future unpaid female child care providers and housekeepers to get to work in the world.
The debate has already started. Although much of it is nonsense (“I give my middle finger,” etc.) some of it, such as the debate over the nature of the opt out statistics, is real and serious. As the debate emerges, I will address the issues to my best ability. Sometimes I will reprint or cite through to the work of others that I think has value. This is the place to watch if you want to see the debate unfold.