Universal Care-Giver

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Christoph Sorg:

"Fraser (2013: 134ff) elsewhere suggests the ideal of a ‘universal care-giver’ to replace the ‘male breadwinner’ at the heart of capitalist patriarchy. Transformative approaches should not idealize the masculinized model of wage work and encourage care-givers to seek freedom in wage labor, thus extending principles of capitalist productivism (Fraser, 2013: 123ff), which in reality is subsidized by racialized global care chains in the first place. Neither should they be happy with mere social subsidies for care-givers, which might upgrade reproductive work, but, at the same time, further cement the gendered division of labor (Fraser, 2013: 128ff). Instead, they should encourage cis-men to take on more reproductive tasks, take paternity leave, work part-time and so on, thus converging masculinized breadwinner and feminized care-giver into universal care-giver (Fraser, 2013: 133ff)."

(https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08969205221081058)