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Institutionalizing the Universal Caretaker Through a Basic Income?
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Almaz Zelleke
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December 31, 2008
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.
Published Online: 2008-12-31
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- Front Matter
- Content
- List of Contributors
- Research Note
- Introduction: Revisiting the Feminism and Basic Income Debate
- Basic Income and the Gendered Division of Labour
- Basic Income Grants or the Welfare State: Which Better Promotes Gender Equality?
- All Things Considered, Should Feminists Embrace Basic Income?
- Institutionalizing the Universal Caretaker Through a Basic Income?
- Basic Income, Gender Justice and the Costs of Gender-Symmetrical Lifestyles
- Can a Basic Income Lead to a More Gender Equal Society?
- Book Review
- Review of Amilcar Moreira, The Activation Dilemma: Reconciling the Fairness and Effectiveness of Minimum Income Schemes in Europe
- Review of Erik Christensen, The Heretical Political Discourse: A Discourse Analysis of the Danish Debate on Basic Income
Keywords for this article
Keywords – basic income;
care work;
feminism;
gender equality;
guaranteed minimum income
Articles in the same Issue
- Front Matter
- Content
- List of Contributors
- Research Note
- Introduction: Revisiting the Feminism and Basic Income Debate
- Basic Income and the Gendered Division of Labour
- Basic Income Grants or the Welfare State: Which Better Promotes Gender Equality?
- All Things Considered, Should Feminists Embrace Basic Income?
- Institutionalizing the Universal Caretaker Through a Basic Income?
- Basic Income, Gender Justice and the Costs of Gender-Symmetrical Lifestyles
- Can a Basic Income Lead to a More Gender Equal Society?
- Book Review
- Review of Amilcar Moreira, The Activation Dilemma: Reconciling the Fairness and Effectiveness of Minimum Income Schemes in Europe
- Review of Erik Christensen, The Heretical Political Discourse: A Discourse Analysis of the Danish Debate on Basic Income
