The Importance of Care Work in the Workplace

Roxanne Jones: Just because we can get piped water doesn't mean the entire social structure that these women are currently fit into is suddenly going to disappear. She says there's no like simple tech solution out of this problem. The tech solution is actually the consequence of women's autonomy, she says. As women have greater voice and agency within the household, the household is more likely to spend a share of their savings on a washing machine,. That is more likely how the causation runs. But even when the technology change, the social relations remain the same. Women are much more rooted in the family than they used to be.