Gender, Social Reproduction, and Financial Work: Evidence from Tamil Ethnographic Financial Diaries
通过泰米尔纳德邦的民族志财务日记，量化并描述了金融工作的内容和性别分工，指出金融工作是家务劳动的延伸，主要由女性承担。
Redefining key economic concepts such as “production” and “work” is a major advance of feminist economics. In a financialized economy where poor households are increasingly dependent on credit and savings to make a living, further redefinition is needed: financial work appears to be an extension of domestic work, largely undertaken by women. Drawing on ethnographic financial diaries conducted in Tamil Nadu, South India, this article quantifies and qualifies the content and scope of financial work and the gender division. Financial work includes contracting credits, managing and repaying debts, planning, making donations, and lending money. Sustaining household reproduction, all of this is real work as it involves routine, time-consuming tasks, and skills.