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    The gendered division of labor makes women less likely to... — Carmelics
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    The gendered division of labor makes women less likely to protest gender exploitation.

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    • 1.Women's caring labor creates psychological consequences that make women less capable of or motivated to separate from others.
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    • 2.Women who are less capable of separating from others are less likely to protest gender exploitation.
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    • 1.Sara Ruddick's 'maternal thinking' thesis holds that caring practices cultivate moral reasoning capacities that can ground principled resistance.
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    • 2.If caring labor develops moral attentiveness and relational reasoning, it may heighten recognition of injustice rather than diminish it.
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    • 3.The psychological consequences of caring labor are therefore as consistent with heightened protest motivation as with diminished separation capacity.
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    • 1.Collective caring labor historically creates networks of solidarity that have motivated women's collective political action, not passivity.
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    • 2.Historical examples—labor strikes by textile workers, welfare rights movements—show caring roles generating protest, not suppressing it.
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    Ferguson argues that the “sex/affective” work of mothering and wifely nurturing is exploitative of women: women give more nurturance and satisfaction (including sexual satisfaction) to men and children than they receive, and do much more of the work of providing these important human goods (cf. also Bartky 1990). The gendered division of labor has both economic and psychological consequences, since women’s caring labor creates women less capable of or motivated to separate from others, and hence
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