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Fund Drive Special: Profiting Off Food

KPFA - Against the Grain

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The Food Industry Was Not Trying to Challenge Gender Inequality

As women moved into the formal work economy of the 1950s, they were still of course responsible for the traditional role of mother and cook. In fact, a major demand of the emerging women's movement was to recognise and deal with this gender inequality in the whole world. The food industry had no intention and still don't have challenging gender inequality. They just wanted to sell to her. So despite all the talk of freeing women in commercials, we still live in a country where gender-based wage inequality is the norm. A third of female-headed households are food insecure. And if anyone has a time or money for it, would the burden of cooking still falls disproportionately on women? Fashion or

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