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The Universal Caregiver Model (Distribution of care work (Professional…
The Universal Caregiver Model
All jobs assume that all employees also have caregiving duties
not penalised for taking time off for care
All people
can
participate in both the labour market and care work
In what ways does the UC achieve its goals? (Fraser, 61)
it removes the dichotomy of breadwinning/caregiving
opens the domestic (private) sphere up to the public
eliminates gender-coding
decouples gender roles from jobs
Distribution of care work
Some work is done informally in households (friends, family)
Professional
elevated to a position of respect (well-paid, not only for immigrants etc.)
state-funded locally organised where people who want to help out will join
Principles for gender equity
The model must satisfy these principles
Anti-exploitation
Anti-androcentrism
Leisure-time equality
Income-equality
Equality-of-respect
Antimarginalisation
Anti-poverty
build a new welfare state
this requires the deconstruction of gender
decouple gender from professional roles
Background for the UC
the old gender order (industrial era)
men as the breadwinner, and women as the caregiver
heterosexual, male-headed, nuclear families
today, not many jobs pay sufficient wages for the industrial model to be successful
jobs are also not sufficiently stable (the rise in 0-hours, temporary contracts)
the 'precariat' (rubery, 518)
the industrial model does not successfully account for families that do not fit it
three tier welfare system
androcentric gender roles? Men have the financial power
the effect of the other branch, means that the emerging new world requires a new or refined type of welfare system