How would a Universal Basic Income impact the movement for women’s equality? Choosing policy interventions to close the gender gap must consider that women still disproportionately bear the burden of childcare and other caring labour.

Feminists should wholeheartedly embrace UBI by Anca Gheaus

Gender, social equality and basic income by Serkan Simsir

Anca Gheaus, Central European University:

Anca is a political philosopher interested in justice, and in particular gender justice and justice towards children. Anca co-edited the The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children and published two pieces on the feminist case for and against UBI. The most recent of these is "The Feminist Argument Against Supporting Care" in the Journal of Practical Ethics.

John is a student of economics at MIT with an interest in applications of econometrics to social problems, including poverty and inequality. They volunteer their time as a research assistant with the UBI Center, looking at the socioeconomic and distributional impacts of cash transfers with a particular interest in child outcomes. They are currently investigating the behaviour of Instrumental Variable estimators used to estimate stochastic coefficients in structural equation models. They have previously worked as a public health researcher and consultant.

Serkan Simsir was born on December 20, 1995 in Turkey. He has completed his bachelor's degree at Marmara University, Department of Political Science and Public Administration (French). Then, he received a merit scholarship for master from the French government and earned his Master's degree in Political Theory at the University of Rennes 1 in 2020. He has studied the following subject in his master thesis: "Basic income as a tool for the emancipation of women, a potential idea to ensure gender equality, guaranteed by the welfare state". Serkan, who speaks 4 languages, Turkish, French, English and Spanish, is currently continuing his second master's education in Marmara University's Political and Social Sciences (French) Master's program and looking for a PhD.

Feminism, UBI and the Politics of Caring Labor