Key Concepts

Feminist economics: an approach to understanding social life and the economic which underscores the importance of care work, reproductive labor, types of essential activities that sustain human societies and lives that are primarily carried out by people gendered as women, racialized and migrants.

Care work: paid and unpaid tasks such as cooking, cleaning, educating, caregiving. These often imply emotional and afffective labor which tends to be invisibilized by traditional approaches to markets and wages.

Time poverty: a relationship to time and the resulting feeling, that we don’t have enough time to cover all of our needs across multiple jobs, care tasks at home, and personal development needs. Time poverty is experienced intersectionally, affecting people in gendered, racialized, classed and ableist ways. Feminist economists have developped associated concepts like the Double Burden/Second shift, after studying waged women’s lives as they carry out work at home in addition to their paid labor. This goes against the rhetoric of waged work as ‘liberatory’ for women.

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