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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are people making this switch? If not, they should. Saying “stay at home mom” has always been only slightly better than “housewife” or “homemaker”. It’s such a disrespectful title that fails to acknowledge the massive role of primary caregivers in our little human section of the universe.

Anyway, I think we should just switch to “work from home”. Whether a woman is sitting in her “office/den/pantry” and ensuring that the section headings are properly aligned and consistently formatted for an insurance company’s lawsuit OR she’s playing with the her in the backyard, either way she’s working from home. Just working on different things.

This also means, in my view, that WFH has the potential to be incrementally anti-patriarchy if it can provide a practical and [b]non-awkward way to blur these lines[/b] a bit so women’s choices aren’t so politicized.  [/quote]

I think this would just be really confusing. If someone says they work from home, I might ask them what they do for childcare or what type of work they do.  If they answered they took care of their kids, I'd find it an odd way of phrasing it (though I'd be polite).  It would be the opposite of non-awkward!

If I didn't ask any follow up, I'd be surprised if I saw them consistently out and about the neighborhood with their children during the workday.  (I work from home and see some kids w/nanny's regularly walking to parks from my office window.)   A WFH mom, especially one with regular hours for a corporation, has far more in common in terms of day-to-day activities with a WOHM, and generally requires F/T childcare for young kids..  There is a blurred line for parents who are self-employed and don't have regular hours or jobs and who juggle both.
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Care work is essential to a functioning society, no matter who does it (parents or paid childcare), and it is indeed work, and I support some extermely progressive viewpoints on this.  But "WFH" has an understood meaning, and trying to change that isn't going to fight the patriarchy.  [/quote][/b]

Agreed[/quote]

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