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Making Care Work: Why Our Economy Should Put People First

In this seminar, Professor Nancy Folbre of the University of Massachusetts Amherst outlines the history of feminist efforts to assert the economic importance of unpaid work in the US and will explain why both paid and unpaid care work remain undervalued in our national income accounts. Rather than simply considering the "inputs" of time and money that go into caring for those who cannot care for themselves, she argues that we should examine the "outputs" of care provision—human capabilities that have both intrinsic and instrumental value that pays off in many ways that cannot be captured by a market metric like increased future earnings. Drawing parallels between the natural and the social environment, she argues that greater public investments in care provision would benefit us all. This virtual seminar was part of WAPPP’s fall 2025 series Exploring Work and Family, led by WAPPP co-director Hannah Riley Bowles.