Gender, age & social class inequalities during childhood: care tasks and unpaid labour. The case of Buenos Aires.

RAUSKY, MARÍA EUGENIA; PEIRÓ, MARÍA LAURA

Londres

Conferencia; International Conference on Gender Studies: "Gender and Power".; 2019

London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

Over the pastdecades, there has been significant academic research into female care andunpaid work. although as Crivello & Espinoza Revollo (2018) pointed out,the field of childhood studies has significant advances in research on caredeveloped by children, but nevertheless not produced a distinct set of caretheories comparable to ´feminist care ethics´. Considering the need to investigate the multiple tasks in which children areinvolved, this paper aims to analyze the ways in which children participate indiverse care task and unpaid labor, highlighthing the complexities inchildren´s care relationships, and due attention to the way that age intersectswith other salient social differences, such as gender and social class, tocreate vulnerability.We analize the case of BuenosAires Region, from a quantitative approach, processing and examining  data from the Survey on the Argentine SocialStructure (ENES) of the Research Program on Contemporary Argentine Society(PISAC) of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation  and the Council of Deans of Faculties ofSocial and Human Sciences.