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Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender

Book by Gloria Steinem · 4 quotes · Values, Economic, Feels

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“In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker's productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband's pain and suffering.”

“Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.”