Three paradoxes surround the division of the costs of social reproduction: * Women have entered the paid labour force in growing numbers, but they continue to perform most of the unpaid labour of housework and childcare. * Birth rates have fallen but more and more mothers are supporting children on their own, with little or no assistance from fathers. * The growth of state spending is often blamed on malfunctioning markets, or runaway bureaucracies. But a large percentage of social spending provides substitutes for income transfers that once took place within families. Who...
Three paradoxes surround the division of the costs of social reproduction: * Women have entered the paid labour force in growing numbers, but they...
Three paradoxes surround the division of the costs of social reproduction: * Women have entered the paid labour force in growing numbers, but they continue to perform most of the unpaid labour of housework and childcare. * Birth rates have fallen but more and more mothers are supporting children on their own, with little or no assistance from fathers. * The growth of state spending is often blamed on malfunctioning markets, or runaway bureaucracies. But a large percentage of social spending provides substitutes for income transfers that once took place within families. Who...
Three paradoxes surround the division of the costs of social reproduction: * Women have entered the paid labour force in growing numbers, but they...
Time is more important than money The time we have to care for one another is more precious to us than anything else in the world. Yet we have more experience accounting for money than we do for time. In this volume, experts in analysis of time use from across the globe explore the interface between time use and family policy.
Time is more important than money The time we have to care for one another is more precious to us than anything else in the world. Yet we have more e...
The time we have to care for one another, especially for our children and our elderly, is more precious to us than anything else in the world. Yet we have more experience accounting for money than we do for time. In this volume, leading experts in analysis of time use from across the globe explore the interface between time use and family policy. The contributors:
* show how social institutions limit the choices that individuals can make about how to divide their time between paid and unpaid work * challenge conventional surveys that offer simplistic measures of time spent in...
The time we have to care for one another, especially for our children and our elderly, is more precious to us than anything else in the world. Yet ...
Public discussion of population aging usually focuses on the financial burden that increasingly elderly populations will impose on younger generations. Scholars give much less attention to who does the actual work of day-to-day care for those no longer able to care for themselves; and although women are the majority among the elderly, little is heard about gender differences in economic resources or the need for care. This volume is dedicated to giving gender - and a full range of social and cultural differences - their rightful place in these discussions. The authors address, amongst...
Public discussion of population aging usually focuses on the financial burden that increasingly elderly populations will impose on younger generati...
Public discussion of population aging usually focuses on the financial burden that increasingly elderly populations will impose on younger generations. Scholars give much less attention to who does the actual work of day-to-day care for those no longer able to care for themselves; and although women are the majority among the elderly, little is heard about gender differences in economic resources or the need for care. This volume is dedicated to giving gender - and a full range of social and cultural differences - their rightful place in these discussions. The authors address, amongst...
Public discussion of population aging usually focuses on the financial burden that increasingly elderly populations will impose on younger generati...
There has been much talk about family values in recent years, but little examination of the economic forces that are exploding family life and limiting the caregiving that families can provide. As Folbre points out in her provocative and insightful new book, every society must confront the problem of balancing self-interested pursuits with care for others including children, the elderly, and the infirm. Historically, most societies enjoyed an increased supply of care by maintaining strict limits on women s freedom. But as these limits happily and inevitably give way, there are many...
There has been much talk about family values in recent years, but little examination of the economic forces that are exploding family life and limi...
Once upon a time, students who were willing and able to work hard could obtain an affordable, high-quality education at a public university. Those times are gone. Intensified admissions competition coupled with opposition to public spending has scorched every campus. Budget cuts, tuition hikes, and debt burdens are undermining the best path to upward mobility that this country ever built.
But despite all of this, Americans still embrace ideals of equal opportunity and know that higher education represents a public good. Students, faculty, staff, and advocates are beginning to build...
Once upon a time, students who were willing and able to work hard could obtain an affordable, high-quality education at a public university. Those ...
Nancy Folbre challenges the conventional economist's assumption that parents have children for the same reason that they acquire pets--primarily for the pleasure of their company. Children become the workers and taxpayers of the next generation, and "investments" in them offer a significant payback to other participants in the economy.
Yet parents, especially mothers, pay most of the costs. The high price of childrearing pushes many families into poverty, often with adverse consequences for children themselves.
Parents spend time as well as money on children. Yet most estimates...
Nancy Folbre challenges the conventional economist's assumption that parents have children for the same reason that they acquire pets--primarily fo...
