Measuring Care: Gender, Empowerment, and the Care Economy

By N. Folbre. 2006

534 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/94e8271e98371cad1d5f2a3ff813ec16c98b550d

How researchers see this paper

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In Gender Studies

1. S. Seguino
2. K. Power
3. N. Kabeer
4. Luisa Natali
5. D. Mont

In General Health Professions

1. S. Seguino
2. K. Power

In Sociology and Political Science

1. R. Rodrigues
2. S. Seguino
3. K. Power
4. Yasemin Dildar
5. N. Kabeer
6. Luisa Natali
7. S. Salomone
8. D. Mont

Citations in the corpus

• Measuring active and healthy ageing in Europe (2017, background): “From a conceptual point of view, this means accounting for different aspects of women’s and men’s lives, namely those that take part outside the market economy, which many times render women’s contributions to society invisible to conventional measurement (Folbre, 2006).”
• The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the care burden of women and families (2020, background): “such as grandparents or older children (Folbre 2006).”
• Help or Hindrance? Religion's Impact on Gender Inequality in Attitudes and Outcomes (2011, background): “Scholars have rightly raised concerns about the absence of more comprehensive measures that could assess women’s differential care burden, gender-based violence, and gender empowerment (Cueva Betata, 2006; Folbre, 2006; Grown, 2008).”