Reforming Care

Nancy Folbre
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Nancy Folbre: University of Massachusetts Amherst, folbre@econs.umass.edu

Politics & Society, 2008, vol. 36, issue 3, 373-387

Abstract: This essay argues that concerns regarding the impact of work/family balance on gender inequality should be extended to broader analysis of all care work. Paid or unpaid care devoted to all dependents (including the sick and elderly as well as children) has distinctive characteristics that contribute to disempowerment and underpayment. Expenditures of money as well as time increase economic vulnerability. Public policies should provide greater support for caregiving outside the market, improve the supply and quality of purchased care services, and challenge conventional accounting systems that mismeasure economic welfare.

Keywords: care; feminist theory; family policy; work/family (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1177/0032329208320567

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