Construction of the Gendered Household: Exploring the Value of Unpaid Domestic Labor
Bibliographic record
Abstract
RQ: What is the economic value of unpaid domestic labour in Canada? Is this labour devalued?Through the Comparable Worth Theory, I evaluate various paid wages for domestic use across the Canadian provinces, using the recent General Social Survey (2015), Labour Force Statistics (2017/2018), and Statistics Canada’s Time Use data to determine an economic value, represented through an hourly wage for unpaid domestic labour. I am extrapolating a nuanced view which extends academia on the relation of domesticated forms of labour and gender. Specifically, how this labour is inherently devalued as a structural component of the economic system. Within the structures of capitalism, such cheap labour remains devalued and informal, meaning unrecognized and invisible in both the market and social setting. I discuss these findings and the limitations of current theoretical tools in evaluating unpaid domestic labour, including structural limitations in their application. Such limitations reveal the shortcomings of Marx’s Labour Theory for informal economic transactions and beg a re-envisioning of alternative labour theories.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".