TY  - BOOK
AU  - Folbre, Nancy
TI  - Should women care less? Intrinsic motivation and gender inequality
SN  - 1467-8543
U1  - Journals 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - 
PB  - British Journal of Industrial Relations
KW  - Care of persons
KW  - Emotions and cognition
KW  - Inequality
KW  - Women
N1  - <p>British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 50 no. 4 (Dec 2012), p. 597-619</p>  <p>Available in the library. See journal shelves.</p>  <p>Available online.&nbsp;</p>
N2  - Gendered values, norms and preferences shape the intrinsic motivation to provide care for others. This article situates an analysis of this motivation within the broader literature on gender inequality, explaining why it has costly consequences for women in both the home and the labour market, even as it provides considerable personal satisfaction and social benefit. Further movement towards gender equality may depend on the success of political and cultural efforts to ‘de-gender’ normative obligations to care
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12000
ER  -