Hilda Scott Quotes

• What all women have in common is that they share most of the unpaid work of the world.

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  Women, World, Common

  Hilda Scott (1984). “Working your way to the bottom: the feminization of poverty”, Pandora Pr

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• The personal is not just political. It is also economic.

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  Political, Economics, Economic

  Hilda Scott (1984). “Working your way to the bottom: the feminization of poverty”, Pandora Pr

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• At the demonstration of sixty feminists against the Miss America Pageant in 1968, when the women filled a trash can with bras, girdles, curlers and spike-heeled shoes, the bra-burning myth was launched by the media and, in spite of its inaccuracy and spiteful intent, put radical feminism on the map.

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  America, Media, Radical Feminism

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• Nothing a housewife does is of value in capitalist terms because it does not take place on the market and therefore does not contribute to the Gross National Product.

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  Doe, Housewife, Term

  Hilda Scott (1984). “Working your way to the bottom: the feminization of poverty”, Pandora Pr

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• it is impossible to attack the problem of poverty in the industrialized or the developing world effectively unless the extent to which poverty is a women's problem is recognized.

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  Women, Poverty, World

  Hilda Scott (1984). “Working your way to the bottom: the feminization of poverty”, Pandora Pr

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• The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.

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  Hard Work, Wife, Achievement

  Hilda Scott (1984). “Working your way to the bottom: the feminization of poverty”, Pandora Pr

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