Why Valuing Care Work is Essential for a Fairer Economy
Unpaid care work is the hidden backbone of every economy. It sustains families, facilitates paid employment, and enhances human well-being, yet remains largely unrecognized in official economic statistics. In Sri Lanka, this work is gaining attention, championed by the new Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, who emphasized its importance in her inaugural parliamentary address.
Women’s Time Use between Paid and Unpaid Work in India
Women carry out a large share of the total unpaid work which leaves them very less time to engage in paid employment in India. This work tries to understand if there is a reduction in unpaid work when women engage in paid employment.
Migrant Men in Care: Navigating Masculinity and Global Inequities
The participation of migrant men in care work challenges traditional gender norms, prompting a redefinition of masculinity as they balance both physical and emotional caregiving. This shift calls for a more inclusive understanding of care, while acknowledging the structural inequalities that continue to shape the global care economy.
Reproductive and Environmental Justice across the US-Mexico Border
A seminar on abortion and health across borders. Register for the seminar on Friday, November 1, 12-2pm ET.
Durba Mitra: Seminar & Talk
Feminist historian Durba Mitra will give a talk on “Protest as Care” and present during a seminar her manuscript in progress “The Future That Was: Feminist Thought in Decolonizing World”
Men and Care Work: Can Unions Help?
New research suggests that men in labor unions help out more at home.
Technologies of Care
Is technology a vehicle of care or of control? Register for the seminar on Friday, October 18, 12-2pm ET
Having Children and Saving the World
Pro-natalists don’t seem to realize that “having” children requires both caring and paying for them.
Working with Time-Use Studies
Is time-use a measure for care or exploitation? Three working papers of emerging scholars from the United States, India, and Sri Lanka, will examine the trade-offs of time-use. Register for Friday, September 27, 9-11am ET.
Nancy Folbre: Seminar & Talk
Nancy Folbre will give a seminar on her manuscript-in-progress “Accounting for Care,” as well as public talk, entitled “Valuing Care: Time, Money, and Capabilities.” Both events will be in person at the Revaluing Care Lab at the FHI in Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C106.
The Political Economy of Care
A graduate class taught by Jocelyn Olcott in the Revaluing Care Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute on sustaining households, communities, and environments. Every Wednesday from 4:40 to 7:10 pm at the Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C106.
Reading/Practice Group on “Hospicing Modernity”
Let’s get together to read and practice how we can interrupt the modern behavior patterns that are killing the planet! Co-promoted with the Franklin Humanities Institute.