60th chat, Monday July 11th 2016: caregiving
11am Pacific / noon Mountain / 1pm Central / 2pm Eastern

Moderated by @sarahcrissinger & @ibeilin
Storify (pdf, html) by @nishamody

Suggested readings:

• “Eldercare: The Forgotten Feminist Issue” by Jamie Nesbitt Golden (2014)

Discussion questions:

• Q1. How do you define “care”? We often talk about caregiving in terms of parenthood, but what are other forms of caregiving? #critlib
• Q2. How do social expectations (or a lack of such expectations) for caregiving affect you or your workplace? #critlib
• Q3. What are some of the structural, policy-level impediments one might encounter as a caregiver in LIS? #critlib
• Q4. We often see a disparity in benefits between staff in different roles, e.g. professional, support, faculty. Is this true in your work? #critlib
• Q5. If you have benefits others don’t, how can you work to create more inclusive policies around caregiving? #critlib

Additional resources:

• ALA’s Caregiver’s Toolkit (2011)
• “Quantify Everything: A Dream of a Feminist Data Future” by Amelia Abreu (2014)