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WOMEN'S SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CARE OF OLD PEOPLE:

"But Who Else Is Going to Do It?"

JANE ARONSON

McMaster University

Drawing on a qualitative study of women who cared for their elderly mothers, this article explores women's experiences of feeling responsible for elderly relatives. The minimal provision of public services for old people and the relative absence of brothers and husbands from family caregiving emerge as material constraints shaping women's sense of obligation. This is affirmed by ideologies and assumptions about women's association with caring and family ties that permeate subjects' accounts of their situations. Translating their sense of obligation into their lives is a contradictory process characterized by ambivalence and guilt that stifle complaint. Further exploration of the social processes that sustain the inequitable division of caring labor can contribute to interpretations, practices, and policies that benefit rather than constrain women.

Gender & Society, Vol. 6, No. 1, 8-29 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/089124392006001002
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