SOC352H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nancy Folbre, Motherhood Penalty, Child Care
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Nancy folbre: wrote a lot about gender and work, talks about the motherhood penalty. Feminist economist, professor emerita, university of massachusetts amhurst: quantitative view points. Chapter focuses on the ways of assigning economic value to care, encompassing both paid and unpaid work. Can assign monetary value to care via estimating the time required and using a market equivalent (recall bener a: benerai too talked about the different way - universal vs. selective ways to sign value to care. It benefits the broader society as well which is hard to quantify ex. Simply shifting estimates of unpaid care work to the paid sector can lead to an. Privacy, personal affinity and cultural appropriateness all affect assessment of (cid:498)quality(cid:499: quality is much harder to value than quantity. Personality match between care provider and recipient, at a system level hard to control for that personality match.
