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Healthy Relationships: How Changes to the Current Structure of Healthcare in America would Help Individuals Achieve Gender Equity in Marriage
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In Justice, Gender, and the Family, Susan Moller Okin argues for an equal division of paid and unpaid labor among spouses, as the solution to gender inequity in modern marriage. While Okin’s argument about gender inequities within marriage turns on the effects of sexism and gender roles, the importance of economic realities should not be overlooked. In addition to gender-based discrimination, our society’s current structure of paid labor effectively undermines the achievement of gender equity. Working in tandem with sexism, the need for at least one full-time employee in a family makes the equal division of paid and unpaid labor highly impractical in most cases. Beginning from the premise that the full-time employment imperative presents a significant obstacle to true equality in the home, this paper identifies one factor that contributes to the need for full-time employment: healthcare. A move away from employer provided healthcare, which currently privileges full-time employment, would reduce as least some of the need families feel to have one full-time wage earner, and would represent a tangible step toward the achievement of Okin’s ideal.
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| | Authors: Beaulieu, Emily. and Speulda, Nicole. |
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Abstract
In Justice, Gender, and the Family, Susan Moller Okin argues for an equal division of paid and unpaid
labor among spouses, as the solution to gender inequity in modern marriage. While Okin’s argument
about gender inequities within marriage turns on the effects of sexism and gender roles, the importance
of economic realities should not be overlooked. In addition to gender-based discrimination, our
society’s current structure of paid labor effectively undermines the achievement of gender equity.
Working in tandem with sexism, the need for at least one full-time employee in a family makes the
equal division of paid and unpaid labor highly impractical in most cases. Beginning from the premise
that the full-time employment imperative presents a significant obstacle to true equality in the home, this
paper identifies one factor that contributes to the need for full-time employment: healthcare. A move
away from employer provided healthcare, which currently privileges full-time employment, would
reduce as least some of the need families feel to have one full-time wage earner, and would represent a
tangible step toward the achievement of Okin’s ideal.
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