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Why Do We Pay Our Plumbers More Than Our Caregivers?

By Terrence McNally and Riane Eisler, AlterNet. Posted June 27, 2007.


Surely leaky pipes aren't more important than our children. Yet, in America, most plumbers make five times what caregivers do. Author Riane Eisler shows how our economic system, rooted in gender inequality, is failing us. An excerpt from her latest book follows.
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Interviewer Terrence McNally hosts Free Forum on KPFK 90.7FM, Los Angeles (streaming at kpfk.org). Riane Eisler is author of the international best-seller The Chalice and the Blade; Our History, Our Future; Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body; The Power of Politics, and her newest, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics. She is president of the Center for Partnership Studies and a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and the World Business Academy.

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