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DOI: <
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Abstract
Jobs providing personal services for daily living have grown in number recently. The public policies encouraging this expansion always present the jobs in a gender-neutral way, in part because 99 per cent of those holding such jobs are women and in part because they locate outside of the household the domestic work usually done by women inside the home. These supposedly gender-neutral policies are based on a number of unstated assumptions about women's relationship to work and to employment. They also contribute to feminizing (albeit invisibly) precarious employment relations. This “women's work” replaces the traditional notion of “giving”, draws the general boundaries around female employment, essentializes the skills needed, and makes it more difficult to have professional qualifications and equality recognized