The History of Homemaking
A homemaker is a person whose main activity is to care for a family and home. This is traditionally an unpaid occupation.
In an effort to understand the value of a private homemaker’s unpaid labor, experts have attempted to quantify the dollar value of the job. No one has come up with a perfectly accurate way to do so.
Four different methods of assessing the economic value of homemaking are listed below. Each method has serious drawbacks and disadvantages.
NOTE: Women Work! does not promote one method over another; we have simply gathered the following data for your information.