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Yet, Echidne, here's the point you're missing
It is not the taking out the time that devalues wages. It's the socio-economic devaluation of motherhood/parenting that devalues wages.
The point I tried to make out of pointing to the CEO divorces is exactly about that. About how these women who took these millionaires to the cleaners did so because they proved how their domestic work was not devoid of value.
By emptying domestic labor of value you hence can devalue women's work out of the home ---because their single most 'natural' job is already worthless and everything else women do henceforth is a bad copy of all what men can achieve.
Serioulsy, I am trying to crudely apply the concept of alienated labor as it would pertain to domestic labor. When I threw Marx into the mix it is for a reason.
The semantics of alienation are too ingrained in this discussion of the value of women's work. What we here are trying to convey is that not until "women's work" aka, domestic work, is seen as valuable and worthy of health insurance, tax breaks, social security and full retirement benefits, all of women's labor will always be devalued.