Who Still Cares for the Family? Recent Developments in Income Maintenance

Abstract

The world as it is at present is divided into two services; one the public and the other the private. In one world the sons of educated men work as civil servants, judges, soldiers and are paid for that work; in the other world the daughters of educated men work as wives, mothers or daughters … but the wives and mothers and daughters who work all day and every day without whose work the State would collapse and fall to pieces, without whose work your sons, sir, would cease to exist, are paid nothing whatever. (Virginia Woolf, 1930)