Originally Posted by
Tammy
We always have fund raisers when police and fire personnel die. Which is fine. But we don’t do this when teachers, social workers, or nurses die. I’ve always found it a little heavy on the “first responder are heroes” line, when we don’t recognize the teachers, social workers, and nurses as heroes whose families also lost their income when they lost their family member.
These groups tend to occupy the same socioeconomic strata. And they all ate the “helpers” in our society.
But it’s probably explained by the historical division of labor - in the old days, men were first responders, and women were teachers, social workers, and nurses.