I was just reminded of another ovary violated current affaire! It was only some time before they institutionalized sexism in the most appropriate way ever. Receiving your college degree as a Homemaker...er, domestic engineer? domestic manager? queen of domesticatiion!

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Posted Aug 24th 2007 1:28PM by Susan Wagner
Filed under: College, Moms, Staying at home, Making a Difference

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, is offering a B.A. degree in humanities with a concentration in homemaking. The course, which will include two years each of classical Greek and classical Latin, as well as courses in fashion design and budgeting, will be open only to women.

It will offer a bachelor of arts in humanities degree with a 23-hour concentration in homemaking. The program is only open to women. So, does that mean that men have to give income to their wives for being engineers of the homestead?

In fact, Seminary President Paige Patterson is known in Southern Baptist circles for issuing a statement saying that women shouldn't be pastors and that they should "graciously submit" to their husbands. (How one "graciously submits" is another question. Would I smile and thank him for the great honor of doing his laundry?)

In actuality, If given an economic value of the unpaid labor on women in the household, women would be trillionnaires. Would that really be justified by this institutionalized sexist act? Have they considered legitimizing women with a paycheck for their work at home? Women employed outside the home do 70% of the housework. Fulltime housewives do 83% of the hosehold labor. So, let's logically add it up:

Job Performed
Food Buyer
3.00 (Hours/week)
17.60 (rate/hour)
52.80 (value/week) The value of work within the household per week
Nurse
1.00
24.63
24.63
Teachers/ Teacher's Aide/Tutor
2.00
8.97
17.94
Waitress
2.25
7.58
17.05
Seamstress
.75
10.68
8.01
Laundress
3.00
8.07
24.21
Driver*
3.50
9.71
33.99
Gardener*
2.25
12.03
26.69
Family Counselor*
2.00
17.11
34.22
Maintenance Worker*
1.00
13.40
13.40
Child Care Worker/Nanny
40.00 8.32
332.80
Janitor/Cleaning Woman
7.50
9.77
73.28
Maid/Housekeeper*
2.50
8.42
21.05
Cook
12.00 8.30
99.60
Errand Runner*
3.50
9.01
31.54
Budget Analyst
3.50
26.65
93.28
Interior Decorator
1.00
21.39
21.39
Child Psychologist
5.00
27.79
138.95
Household Buyer
2.00
10.99
21.98
Dishwasher*
6.20
7.45
46.19
Dietitian
1.20
20.68
24.82
Secretary
2.00
12.69
25.38
Public Relations Specialist 1.00
23.19
23.19
Animal Caretaker/ veteranary assistant
1.50
9.28
13.92

We can safely say that the range of income, depending on household size and age of children can range from 30,000-80,000/year. According to an MSN article by Dunleavy, "economists say that the stay-at-home parent who relinquishes a career may lose about $1 million over the years."

Tricky tricky tricky men. Let's have a rock throwing contest at this Patterson character. Pay up or we kill.