Professional labor, that is, work, is generally paid. We usually get paid to go to work, but housework is not necessarily. We do housework, work, farmers farm, and parents take care of their children, but they don't necessarily get paid.
Professional labor is labor in a unit or a certain place. You can do housework on any occasion.
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Looking back at history, we can easily find the decisive role of productive labor in the development and progress of human society. It is countless laborers who actively participate in various productive labor practices that have made our highly developed modern civilization today.
In our daily life, although there are many jobs that are not directly involved in social production, they also create comfortable living conditions and beautiful living environment for us. Housework is one of the most important things.
Unlike professional labor, housework is not a direct social production activity, nor does it produce obvious economic value. At the same time, influenced by the traditional concept of "men are the masters outside and women are the masters inside", especially housework is repetitive and simple. Compared with professional labor, housework is often not respected enough.
In most traditional families in China and even in the world, housework has always been regarded as the obligation of women. However, with the improvement of women's education level, more and more "wives" and "mothers" have taken up jobs, playing an increasingly important role in social and economic activities, and the value of housework has gradually been recognized and valued by people.
References:
People's Daily-Workers' Daily: Protecting the rights and interests of "stay-at-home wives" requires improving the compensation mechanism for housework.