CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Yang, Xiyue |
|---|---|
| Title | Ectogenesis: An Effective Compensation For The Injustice of Childbearing |
| Summary | This paper aims to examine the impact of a child’s arrival, illustrating how the advent of a child can place the mother in an unjust situation. It explicates why natural gestation and parturition are themselves burdens to women and why the current laws and policies cannot properly compensate for the unequal sacrifices made by women. A gender-just family asks both father and mother should bear relatively equal burdens to their children, and no one should be disadvantaged because of their sex in the process of childbearing and childrearing. However, the biological fact that only women have the function of gestation and parturition is a natural inequality that puts women in a vulnerable position which faces mental and physical risks, the gender pay gap, inferior social status, and diminished career competitiveness in the labour market. Women are disproportionately disadvantaged as a result of childbearing and childrearing when compared with men. Therefore, it is reasonable to incorporate the biological realities of childbearing into the framework of gender justice which provides a ground for redress. To achieve a gender-just society, a promising proposal for effective compensation is ectogenesis, which can provide technical alternatives to replace childbearing. |
| Supervisor | Andres Moles |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/yang_xiyue.pdf |
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