Sublime

Since she became a full-time housewife, she often noticed that there was a polarised attitude regarding domestic labour. Some demeaned it as ‘bumming around at home’, while others glorified it as ‘work that sustains life’, but none tried to calculate its monetary value. Probably because the moment you put a price on something, someone has to pay.

Alison Wolf argues (most notably in her 2013 book The XX Factor), ‘there are large numbers of women who are doing very, very poorly paid jobs, which make the lives of better paid women possible’.[5] Though Lean In encouraged women to smash the glass ceiling, it made little provision for the women on the ground floor who would have to walk over the

It’s my standard pre-interview ceremonial dance; I’m like Anthony Joshua with gender equality data for boxing gloves.

But of course the self-made man wasn’t actually self-made; not only did he benefit from a system that was built on the backs of, and systematically disadvantaged, people of color—because the self-made man was invariably white—he could always count on the free labor of his wife, who was expected to sacrifice her own self-actualization and independen

Design justice focuses on the ways that race, class, gender, and disability structure both information asymmetries and variance in user product needs.