The Floor Is Made Of Women (opens in new tab)

But the real problem, the deepest cut, is that no one told men that the floor was made of women. Not the floor of the family household, managed and maintained by unpaid domestic and child care. Not the floor of the economy, held up by unpaid and low-wage care work that kept social reproduction artificially cheap and racial hierarchies in check. Not the floor of men's emotional lives, built on women's emotional and hermeneutic labor. Not of men's protecting and sense of courage, made possible ...