I. Economics of Child Care
This section includes a number of works (1971 to 1979) that contributed to establishing the field of the economics of child care, and also contributed to theory and practice about gender equity and androgyny. One basic premise is that the rewards to caretaking in human societies are fundamental to understanding structural sexism as it affects people of all gender identities. (On the one hand, child care and other caretaking is “priceless.” On the other hand, child care and other caretaking is “worth” either no wages or low wages, by comparison with other work deemed essential to humankind.)
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Economics of Child Care: Costs, Needs, and Issues
(Basic Books, 1973)A policy on child care requires knowledge of alternative programs of different scopes, the relative benefits of these various programs, and their respective costs. This chapter discusses issues of costs and quality of child ... -
Questions We Might Ask About Day Care
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When the Employer Faces Day Care Decisions: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Other Decision-Making Tools
(Sloan Management Review (MIT), 1973)More and more employers are being asked to make decisions on day care. In public agencies and private business, employers are seeking advice on how to decide whether, and to what extent, to subsidize day care. Traditional ...
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