Mothers have to be perceived as human resources, whose depletion consist not only in their non-existence in the event of death, but most importantly consist in the depletion of their current and potential capabilities from doing “reproductive work” on the one hand and on the other hand in the depletion of monetary resources from the lack of monetary compensation for doing “reproductive work” during their lifetime. It is this double view that ought to be at the forefront of any development agenda which seeks to alleviate maternal poverty and to overcome the unequal social and economic disadvantages mothers face.
Elaine Agyemang Tontoh, 2020
“Where do people not say, “I want to do X, but the circumstances of my life don’t give me a chance”? To this sort of common discontent, the approach responds by saying, “Yes indeed, in some very important areas you ought to be able to do what you have in mind, and if you aren’t able, that is a failure of basic justice”.
Martha Nussbaum, 2011
“…the reproduction of human beings is the foundation of any economic and political system, and that the immense amount of domestic work that women do in the home, paid and unpaid, for their families and the families of others, has been the engine that has kept the world moving”.
Silvia Federici, 2012
Published Dissertation:
Tontoh, E. A. (2021). The Triple Day Thesis: Three Theoretical Essays on the Capability Perspective and
Economics of Motherhood. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
Dissertation Committee
Ying Chen, The New School for Social Research, Department of Economics
Katherine Moos, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Economics
Paulo Dos Santos, The New School for Social Research, Department of Economics
Duncan Foley, The New School for Social Research, Department of Economics
