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Does Unpaid Care Work affect the Well-being of Care Providers? Evidence from Kerala, India
In most countries the provision of care in the family continues to lie unbalanced mainly with women on an unpaid basis. Unpaid care work has multidimensional aspects of well-being which can have many positive benefits from the care received and also have costs for those who provide care. This paper...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities
2014
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| Online adgang: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/005992.pdf |
| Summary: | In most countries the provision of care in the family continues to lie unbalanced mainly with
women on an unpaid basis. Unpaid care work has multidimensional aspects of well-being which
can have many positive benefits from the care received and also have costs for those who provide
care. This paper examines the implications of unpaid care work on human well-being in the
Madapally panchayat of Kerala state of India. The study makes use of is a small scale exploratory
design utilizing cross-sectional face to face recall interview schedule and focus group discussions
from 315 households. Factor analysis was done for each group to extract the most significant
factors that are related to well-being of the care providers. It is found that there exist gender
differences in factors that negatively affect well-being of care providers. The study shed light on
the need for gender budgeting |
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| Fysisk beskrivelse: | pp. 114-121. Vol. 4, No. 9, September 2014, |