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Housework Recognized

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Parent Issue
Day
31
Month
May
Year
1974
OCR Text

    A bill that would provide full social security coverage for homemakers has finally been introduced to the House of Representatives. Representatives Barbara Jordan (D-Texas) and Martha Griffiths (D-Michigan) presented the legislation (H.R. 12645) which would alleviate one of the most severe forms of economic discrimination against women: failure to recognize homemaker services as a valuable contribution to the nation's economy. If passed, the bill could enable women to receive disability benefits should they become severely ill; widowers could be eligible to apply for survivors benefits to assist in paying for substitute homemaker services; women as homemakers could enjoy full social security coverage as if they were self-employed workers.

---MAJORITY REPORT