The socialization of care and social inequalities

Abstract

This text offers a commentary on the article presented by Eillen Boris, drawing from my own on-going research into care regimes in Brazil. I highlight the strategic place occupied by paid domestic work, comparing it to other spheres of care, such as the sharing of domestic tasks between men and women and the public provision of child education, and examining the intersection of two systems of inequalities: gender and social class.

Care; Domestic workers; Sexual division of domestic work; Socialization