Wages of Virtue: The Relative Pay of Care Work

By P. England, Michelle J. Budig, N. Folbre. 2002

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, General Health Professions

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The Payoff to Skill in the Third Industrial Revolution1 (2013, background): “…that estimate the net effects of closure in the context of multiple controls for skill ðe.g., Weeden 2002Þ, while research on the wage penalty for nurturing likewise typically conditions on a multidimensional measurement of skill ðe.g., Kilbourne et al. 1994; England, Budig, and Folbre 2002Þ.”
Why do occupations dominated by women pay less? How ‘female-typical’ work tasks and working-time arrangements affect the gender wage gap among higher education graduates (2016, background): “So far, many empirical studies support the ‘devaluation thesis’ (e.g. England, 1992; England et al., 2000, 2002; Perales, 2013).2 However, in the literature the issue remains unresolved whether ‘female-typical’ occupations are valued less simply due to their higher share of women or because of…”
Gender Inequality in Labor Markets: The Role of Motherhood and Segregation (2005, background): “Care work pays less than other work requiring the same amount of skill, effort and risk (England and Folbre 1999; England et al. 2002).”
Rethinking job satisfaction in care work: looking beyond the care debates (2015, background): “However, while the intrinsic rewards of the job may compensate in part for low wages the theory fails to explain why a preference for care work leads to a pay penalty and why there are labour shortages in the sector if jobs are so rewarding (England et al., 2002).”
Biased estimators? Comparing status and statistical theories of gender discrimination (2006, background): “Foschi (2002) has proposed the ‘‘application files’’ experimental setting, where evaluators evaluate hypothetical job applicants who differ on a nominal distinction that carries status value, like gender, for a summer intern position in engineering.”
Measuring Care: Gender, Empowerment, and the Care Economy (2006, background): “Such occupations tend to pay less than other jobs with otherwise similar characteristics (Budig et al., 2002).”
The his and hers of prosocial behavior: an examination of the social psychology of gender. (2009, background): “Impediments to men taking on such roles include the lower wages of occupations that emphasize caring (England, 2006; England et al., 2002), men’s lack of self-efficacy in relation to such activity (Giles & Rea, 1999), social expectations that men are deficient in communal skills (Cejka & Eagly, 1999”