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Feminist Perspectives on Basic Income

In: Implementing a Basic Income in Australia

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  • Eva Cox

    (University of Technology Sydney)

Abstract

Feminist claims for equality have, for too long, been defined by dominant male criteria and values, which fail to recognise the high level of unpaid contributions made by women. Current debate on the provision of an ‘unearned’ Basic Income (BI) offers a rare opportunity to address intransigent gender pay and status gaps. Western societies’ long industrial history of paid work served to increase the established gender divide by only valuing people by their earned/owned income. There are increasingly relevant arguments for a BI as demand for paid workers diminishes. If universal, this type of payment should acknowledge the value of unpaid work time contributions, now provided mainly by women but, hopefully in the future, by more men. It would address the income inequities created by unpaid women being the main providers of services, as well as being underpaid for commercialised similar roles. Therefore, feminist lenses are required to devise more appropriate versions of the future, which are not limited by masculinised viewpoints. These alternate viewpoints return value to current unpaid social roles and contributions to citizenship that are not dependent on paid roles and can devise payments to match.

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  • Eva Cox, 2019. "Feminist Perspectives on Basic Income," Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, in: Elise Klein & Jennifer Mays & Tim Dunlop (ed.), Implementing a Basic Income in Australia, chapter 4, pages 69-85, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:etbchp:978-3-030-14378-7_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-14378-7_4
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    1. Olli Kangas & Minna Ylikännö, 2023. "Basic Income and the Status of Women in an Established Gender-Equal Welfare State: Results from the Finnish Basic Income Experiment," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(3), pages 1-13, January.
    2. Ralph P. Hall & Robert Ashford & Nicholas A. Ashford & Johan Arango-Quiroga, 2019. "Universal Basic Income and Inclusive Capitalism: Consequences for Sustainability," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(16), pages 1-29, August.
    3. Lucía Martínez & Olalla García-Taibo & Alberto Ferriz-Valero & Salvador Baena-Morales, 2023. "Contributing to SDG Targets 4.5 and 5.5 during Physical Education Sessions: The Effect of a Collective Sports Intervention on Gender Attitudes," Societies, MDPI, vol. 13(3), pages 1-13, March.
    4. Büchs, Milena, 2021. "Sustainable welfare: How do universal basic income and universal basic services compare?," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 189(C).

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