Women's paid work and moral economies of care
Women's paid work and moral economies of care
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妇女的有偿工作和护理的道德经济
DOI：
10.1080/14649360500074642
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发表时间：
2005
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
K. Ward
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文献类型：
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作者：
L. McDowell;K. Ray;D. Perrons;C. Fagan;K. Ward
近几十年来，女性劳动力参与率一直在上升，部分原因是国家提高就业率的政策，以鼓励经济竞争力和消除社会排斥。然而，社会提供的照料却落后于这一增长，给个人和社会带来了实际和道德困境，让父母面临着如何将工作和照料结合起来的复杂选择。在本文中，我们利用伦敦的一项定性研究来探讨女性大规模从事带薪工作在多大程度上改变了女性对其照顾他人的义务和责任的理解。我们的结论是，他们的决定受到阶级地位、劳动力市场中根深蒂固的性别不平等、支付护理费用的不同能力以及对护理责任的复杂性别理解的影响。
Female labour force participation has been increasing in recent decades, in part encouraged by state policies to raise the employment rate to encourage economic competitiveness and combat social exclusion. Social provision for care, however, has lagged behind this increase, creating practical and moral dilemmas for individuals and for society, facing parents with complex choices about how to combine work and care. In this paper, we draw on a qualitative study in London to explore the extent to which the large-scale entry of women into waged work is altering women's understandings of their duties and responsibilities to care for others. We conclude that their decisions are influenced by class position, entrenched gender inequalities in the labour market, varying abilities to pay for care and complex gendered understandings of caring responsibilities.