Intra-Gender Trade-Offs in Basic Income Regimes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24229222 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leticia Morales (0000-0003-0500-1160, Austral University of Chile), Jurgen De Wispelaere (0000-0002-9117-772X, Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath , Claverton Down , Bath, BA2 7AY) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Publication date | 2026-04-16 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1072-4745 • E-ISSN: 1468-2893 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/sp/jxag004 |
| OpenAlex | W7154602785 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 45 |
The contemporary debate about basic income and gender primarily adopts an external perspective according to which women as a group are pitched against men as a group. This article examines tensions internal to women as a group. We distinguish three types of tensions, each of which lead to a so-called intra-gender trade-off: (1) horizontal tensions trade off different spheres of activities in which women have an interest (e.g. labor market vs. family); (2) vertical tensions pitch better-off women against worse-off women (e.g. high educated vs. low educated); (3) temporal tensions trade off impact in one part of the life-cycle against another (e.g. early vs. later in life). The article argues for the importance of acknowledging the internal perspective on gender equality and the challenges this poses for the basic income proposal while also suggesting how it may constructively address avenues for designing and implementing a gender-sensitive basic income.
Basic income · education and income · Gender equality · horizontal tension · life cycle · temporal tension · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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