@article{Rolfe_Walsh_2011, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={Compensating Carework: An Activity about Gender Inequality and Devalued Labor}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/compensating-carework-an-activity-about-gender}, abstractNote={Through asking students to provide a salary for cooking, cleaning, and childcare services, the "Compensating Carework" activity focuses the classroom lens on the traditionally unpaid, devalued, female-typed of carework in order to illuminate persistent gender disparities. Although college students may not see carework as a contemporary issue reflecting gender inequality, the "Compensating Carework" activity encourages students to engage with the way in which carework remains ‘woman’s work’ and explore the social perceptions of carework as devalued and unpaid – or poorly compensated – labor stratified by gender, race, class, and nationality. This activity destabilizes students’ acceptance of carework as devalued and leads students to consider how mothering/parenting is underappreciated both in and beyond their own lives.}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Rolfe, Megan and Walsh, Caitlin}, year={2011}, month={May} }