Abstract

Feminists should endorse a basic income, particularly in comparison to other feasible safety-net alternatives, including work-conditioned benefits and a caregiver stipend. A basic income promotes gender equality by creating the social and economic conditions required to reduce the gendered division of labor. Most importantly, a universal, unconditional basic income could greatly reduce the poverty rate of the most vulnerable group in capitalist economies: single women and their children. For this reason if for no other, feminists should endorse a basic income.

Recommended Citation

Zelleke, Almaz (2008) "Institutionalizing the Universal Caretaker Through a Basic Income?," Basic Income Studies: Vol. 3 : Iss. 3, Article 7.
DOI: 10.2202/1932-0183.1133
Available at: http://www.bepress.com/bis/vol3/iss3/art7