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Institutionalizing the Universal Caretaker Through a Basic Income?

Zelleke Almaz
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Zelleke Almaz: The New School

Basic Income Studies, 2008, vol. 3, issue 3, 9

Abstract: Feminists should endorse a basic income, particularly in comparison to other feasible safety-net alternatives, including work-conditioned benefits and a caregiver stipend. A basic income promotes gender equality by creating the social and economic conditions required to reduce the gendered division of labor. Most importantly, a universal, unconditional basic income could greatly reduce the poverty rate of the most vulnerable group in capitalist economies: single women and their children. For this reason if for no other, feminists should endorse a basic income.

Keywords: Keywords – basic income; care work; feminism; gender equality; guaranteed minimum income (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.2202/1932-0183.1133

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