Long TextEjercicio 74 de 74

Care work - the feeding, washing, comforting, supervising, teaching, and emotional sustaining of other human beings - is arguably the most essential form of labour that any society performs. Without it, children do not develop, the elderly are abandoned, the sick go untreated, and the social bonds that hold…

• What contradiction does the writer identify in society's treatment of care work?
• According to the writer, how did historical attitudes contribute to the undervaluation of care?