Who Pays for the Kids?: Gender and the Structures of Constraint
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
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Who Pays for the Kids?: Gender and the Structures of Constraint
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
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Who Pays for the Kids?: Gender and the Structures of Constraint

Who Pays for the Kids?: Gender and the Structures of Constraint

by Nancy Folbre
Who Pays for the Kids?: Gender and the Structures of Constraint

Who Pays for the Kids?: Gender and the Structures of Constraint

by Nancy Folbre

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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

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781134903948
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 01/06/1994
Series: Economics as Social Theory
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 352
File size: 856 KB

About the Author

Nancy Folbre

Table of Contents

Figures, Tables, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Part I Concepts of social reproduction, Part II Histories of social reproduction, Notes, References, Index
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