Care Work Is the Next Feminist Frontier

Women are being impoverished, knocked out of the labor force, or working themselves to death caring for others — because that’s ‘just what women do’

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
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6 min readSep 5, 2019

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TThe work of caring for someone is not natural. No one is born knowing how to do it; no group of people naturally excels at it. In point of fact, care…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle
GEN
Writer for

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.