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The forms of decommodification and (de)familisation measures during COVID‐19: What is the impact on female's welfare?
Author(s) -
Yuda Tauchid Komara,
Rezza Muhammad
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
public administration and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.574
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1099-162X
pISSN - 0271-2075
DOI - 10.1002/pad.1955
Subject(s) - conditional cash transfer , welfare state , unemployment , welfare , economics , covid-19 , cash , labour economics , cash transfers , social policy , social protection , social welfare , state (computer science) , public economics , social assistance , demographic economics , political science , economic growth , poverty , market economy , law , macroeconomics , medicine , disease , pathology , politics , infectious disease (medical specialty) , algorithm , computer science
Using the decommodification and (de)familisation framework, this paper examines the two main Social Safety Net programme during the pandemic and its effect on female welfare in Indonesia. It is argued that despite expansion of decommodification measures through unemployment benefits, females tend to benefit less because the existing labour force structure is highly dominated by males. Hence, the only way of being financially secure is to have access to Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT), which means it then exposes them to greater risk of familisation. This is because to be eligible for CCT, they are (informally) required to perform unpaid caregiving. This article concludes that familial ethics has become a rationale for the state to push females to seek social support through a family relationship, resulting in social risk internalisation during the COVID‐19 crisis, rather granting them citizenship rights‐based welfare.