ISSN 1320 8632A regul Ar upd At e from the r e se Ar ch An d policy centreNovember 2010Revaluing care Gender, justice and equalityCare is central to human society, but many young women, motherhood private’ and the consequences of it is often understood as peripheral and the associated decisions about such a ‘private’ decision are seen to the real business of economic child care are their first encounters as beyond the scope of social progress. One reason for this is with the marginalisation of care policy (Lewis 2009, p.17).that generally care is unpaid or and its consequences. For others the low-paid. As Jane Lewis observes, catalyst may be an accident, sudden The concept of ‘affective equality’ in ‘most countries economic policy illness or the increasing frailty of proposed by Irish scholars Lynch, has tended to take priority over a relative. The questions: who is Baker and Lyons (2009) neatly social policy’ (2009, p. 9). The going to provide care? on what addresses the dilemma that Jane primacy of the economic over terms? at what cost? are not only Lewis has identified. Rather other realms of life has serious deeply personal, they are questions than using the idea of choice as implications for social cohesion of public policy. Importantly, the a means of analysing policy, as and gender justice, because the answers tend to be shaped by one’s Lewis does—which then raises ‘burdens and benefits’ (Lynch gender, class, ethnicity or ‘race’, issues about the ...
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