La paradoja del cuidado: necesario pero invisible.

Abstract

This paper reconstructs the itinerary covered, in the last decades, by the feminism thought about domestic and care work including a discussion about it’s conceptual and empirical dimension. Both perspectives show the same difficulties to conceptualize, measure and value care work, in particular, the more invisible subjective dimension. Both perspectives show the same difficulties to conceptualize, measure and value care work, in particular, the subjective dimension which is the most invisible one. Therefore, we urgently need to develop new methodologies to show and quantify these elements in order to introduce them into the economic analysis.