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Should Women Care Less? Intrinsic Motivation and Gender Inequality[Note 2. This article draws from the first draft of an ...]
Author(s) -
Folbre Nancy
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
british journal of industrial relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.665
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-8543
pISSN - 0007-1080
DOI - 10.1111/bjir.12000
Subject(s) - normative , inequality , gender inequality , politics , gender equality , sociology , social psychology , intrinsic motivation , gender studies , positive economics , psychology , demographic economics , economics , political science , mathematical analysis , mathematics , law
Gendered values, norms and preferences shape the intrinsic motivation to provide care for others. This article situates an analysis of this motivation within the broader literature on gender inequality, explaining why it has costly consequences for women in both the home and the labour market, even as it provides considerable personal satisfaction and social benefit. Further movement towards gender equality may depend on the success of political and cultural efforts to ‘de‐gender’ normative obligations to care.