PHIL 2135 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Equal Pay For Equal Work, The Automatic, Fide
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The answer given in class was yes, sometimes. The automatic association of all women with babies is unfair to these women, argues felice n. schwartz, an organizer and advocate for working women. By forcing these women to choose between family and career, companies lose a valuable resource and a competitive advantage. In other words, companies should provide women with the option of a comfortable but slower mommy track. : the problem of child care for working mothers. They can only subject particular expressions of it to surveillance and discipline. Although some groups suffer more than others when this occurs, everyone loses. I am concerned about the threats to human intimacy and the negative politics of sexuality that are ushered in by the drive toward sanitization. With the decline of civil society, the workplace is one of the few arenas left in our society where people from different walks of life can come to know one another well.
