Who Pays for the Kids?: Gender and the Structures of Constraint

by Nancy Folbre

Book Overview

Three paradoxes surround the division of the costs of social reproduction:
* Women have entered the paid labour force in growing numbers, but they continue to perform most of the unpaid labour of housework and childcare.
* Birth rates have fallen but more and more mothers are supporting children on their own, with little or no assistance from fathers.
* The growth of state spending is often blamed on malfunctioning markets, or runaway bureaucracies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415075653
• ISBN13: 9780415075657
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary