There is a guest post on the blog phd in parenting from the blogger blue milk (both great feminist mothering/parenting blogs btw).
It's a write up of a lecture, given by feminist economist Nancy Folbre entitled "Women?s Work And The Limits of Capitalism". There is also a youtube link to the actual lecture.
I haven't watched the video yet, just read the write up but it looks really interesting and covers things we often debate here:
-patriarchy
-capitalism
-equality of wages/opportunity
-SAHM/WAHM
-value of unpaid work - mothering/caring etc
-use of low paid women for cleaning/childcare by professional women
"Which factor is most to blame for the modern predicament of mothers ? over-worked, exhausted, stretched to capacity, idolised yet invisible, and financially vulnerable ? the patriarchy or capitalism?"
The conclusion from the write up is that "nothing will change until we can rally a larger coalition and to do this we need to first document and explain inequality better, and to do that? ? we need to start counting unpaid caring work!".
Will watch the lecture later and post back.
I'd be interested to hear others thoughts on this.