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Stiteler Hall, Room B26
After the Care Crisis
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2018-11-16 09:00:00
2018-11-16 17:30:00
America/New_York
After the Care Crisis
Care is in crisis. The lion’s share of caregiving within and outside of families is done by women and they receive little to no pay, nor recognition for it. Women represent over 80% of childcare workers, over 90% of home care workers, and over 95% of domestic workers. Many of them are Black and migrant women. Their wages are at the bottom of economic distribution and current laws undermine their access to basic labor rights. Furthermore, women provide over 70% of full-time unpaid care work. That is, women providing care in the home receive no compensation and, moreover, give up jobs and economic autonomy to do it.
These care contradictions are at a breaking point. Care workers are organizing to ask for equal rights and better pay. Women and families are demanding collective responsibility over care, just as they are demanding labor alternatives that address care needs without economically bankrupting women. Women are saying enough to providing care for free, enough to providing care for poverty wages.
“After the Care Crisis” seeks to imagine alternative ways of organizing care that put an end to this deeply unjust system that relies on pervasive feminization, racialization, and devaluation. Researchers, activists, and policy advocates will discuss current contradictions in care work and ongoing campaigns looking to transform it in the direction of justice and equity.
Participants will include the United Home Care Workers’ of PA, the Pennsylvania Domestic Workers Alliance, the National Domestic Workers’ Alliance, Hand in Hand the domestic employers’ network, researchers across the social sciences and humanities, and a keynote address by economist Nancy Folbre.
ALL events are OPEN to the public. Please RSVP if you are planning on attending any of the panels.
Stiteler Hall, Room B26
Penn Medical Ethics
104 Stellar-Chance, 422 Curie Blvd Philadelphia, PA 19104 United States
Health Policy Work-in-Progress Seminar: Varun Gauri, PhD
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2018-12-13 12:00:00
2018-12-13 13:00:00
America/New_York
Health Policy Work-in-Progress Seminar: Varun Gauri, PhD
Co-head, Mind, Behavior, and Development Unit; Senior Economist, Development Research Group, The World Bank
104 Stellar-Chance, 422 Curie Blvd Philadelphia, PA 19104 United States
Penn Medical Ethics
104 Stellar-Chance, 422 Curie Blvd Philadelphia, PA 19104 United States
Health Policy Work-in-Progress Seminar: Mario Macis, PhD
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2019-01-10 12:00:00
2019-01-10 13:00:00
America/New_York
Health Policy Work-in-Progress Seminar: Mario Macis, PhD
Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School; Academic Program Director, MS in Health Care Management; Associate Faculty, Johns Hopkins Medicine Armstrong Institute
104 Stellar-Chance, 422 Curie Blvd Philadelphia, PA 19104 United States
Penn Medical Ethics
104 Stellar-Chance, 422 Curie Blvd Philadelphia, PA 19104 United States
Health Policy Work-in-Progress: Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD
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2019-01-24 12:00:00
2019-01-24 13:00:00
America/New_York
Health Policy Work-in-Progress: Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD
Associate Professor of School of Information and Health Management and Policy, University of California San Francisco
104 Stellar-Chance, 422 Curie Blvd Philadelphia, PA 19104 United States
Penn Medical Ethics