A foundational asymmetry: gender, unpaid care work, and the market economy
指出全球父权制的一个共同特征:性别劳动分工不对称,女性承担无偿照料和家务劳动,男性享有更多经济机会,并分析这种不对称如何导致经济领域的性别劣势和贫困风险。
Abstract The structures of patriarchy are characterized by considerable variety across the world, but they have one feature in common which appears with monotonous regularity across a range of different contexts: an asymmetrical gender division of labour which assigns primary responsibility for unpaid care and domestic work to women and girls within the household while giving men privileged access to material resources and economic opportunities. This asymmetry, and the form that it takes in different contexts, is foundational to the varying patterns of gender injustice we see across the world. This paper focuses on how it shapes various forms of gender disadvantage in the economic domain and its implications for gendered risks of poverty and illbeing.