However, a more correct association should be the lack or absence of support systems for working mothers, e.g., child care facilities, and the prevalence of traditional patriarchal family and gender relations in the family and society which encumber hopes for women s emancipation despite their increased participation in the waged labour force.
Work thus has a monetary significance.
Tasks falling outside these parameters are considered non productive . In a commodity-based social system, one of the most important commodities is labour power , hired and sold for a price in the job market. It creates other commodities and value on which the system thrives. Women in their domestic activities of cooking, cleaning and rendering numerous other services revitalize the worker for the next day s work. The activities of reproducing and raising the potential labour power and that of maintaining the existing work force keep the wheel of society moving.