Market Friendly or Family Friendly? The State and Gender Inequality in Old Age, by Madonna Harrington Meyer and Pamela Herd

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Notes

¹ The issue was published separately as Warm Hands in Cold Age (Nancy Folbre, Lois B. Shaw, and Agneta Stark 2007).

² This is, of course, not a new topic, having been previously addressed by many authors such as Angela M. O'Rand and John C. Henretta (1999).

³ This issue of class with respect to inequality is discussed in a recent book by feminist sociologist Joan Acker (2006).

⁴ Feminists have long called for some type of compensation for women's care work. See, for example, Nancy Folbre (1994), Trudie Knijn and Monique Kremer (1997), Francesca M. Cancian and Stacey J. Oliker (2000), Barbara Hobson (2000), Madonna Harrington Meyer (2000), Ann Crittenden (2001), and Pamela Herd (2006).

⁵ For an earlier discussion of some of the same issues, see Carole A. Green (2005).

⁶ See related work by Pamela Herd (2005a, 2005b) and Madonna Harrington Meyer, Douglas Wolf, and Christine Himes (2006).

⁷ The analysis builds on work by feminist sociologists such as Jill S. Quadagno (2005).