Basic Income: The Potential for Gendered Empowerment?
Basic income is likely to gain momentum as the next social welfare trend to sweep over the world with ideas of how to improve the fairness and efficiency of distributing money. Other earlier movements with similar ambitions to transform societies, ranging across the political spectrum from socialism...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Cogitatio Press
2018
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| Στο/Στη: |
Social Inclusion
Έτος: 2018, Τόμος: 6, Τεύχος: 4, Σελίδες: 8-15 |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Sweden
B Gender Equality B Feminism B universal worker model B basic income B parental leave B Empowerment |
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| Σύνοψη: | Basic income is likely to gain momentum as the next social welfare trend to sweep over the world with ideas of how to improve the fairness and efficiency of distributing money. Other earlier movements with similar ambitions to transform societies, ranging across the political spectrum from socialism to neo-liberalism, have led to very different consequences for strata of citizens, but have in common that they have de-prioritised gender equality in favour of other interests. Advocates of basic income suggest that in addition to pragmatic gains, such as a more efficient state administration, primarily a basic income will empower citizens, leading to the potential for greater human flourishing. Our question is whether this empowerment will be gendered and if so, how? So far, the basic income debate addresses gender only in so far as it would raise the income of the poorest, of whom a larger proportion are women. However, it is less clear how it might contribute to a transformation of gendered behaviour, making possible divergent shapes of life where binary and set notions of gender are not a restriction. We discuss the idea of basic income from a perspective of gender equality in the Swedish context. |
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| ISSN: | 2183-2803 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Social Inclusion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.17645/si.v6i4.1487 |