Assumption that UBI alone prevents gender oppression precludes a structural focus that is vital to solve gender inequality
Goldblatt 20, Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney and a Visiting Professor in the School of Law at the University (Beth, “Basic Income, Gender and Human Rights,” University of Oxford Human Rights Hub Journal, 3.1)//BB
Some proponents suggest that universal childcare must accompany a basic income if it is to succeed in unseating sexual divisions of work and care. However, the cost implications of providing both might be economically and politically unfeasible. Young, writing in the Canadian context, has supported the idea of a basic income alongside other essential features of a welfare state that improve the position of women.100 She argues that a focus on basic income as the key policy option to redistribute resources risks failing to focus on the problems of the market in terms of its ‘provision of services and its treatment of workers’.101 The focus of a basic income on the individual can foreclose a focus on structures that create and maintain inequality. Aside from these conceptual concerns with a basic income there are many practical concerns about the size and shape of a basic income and the possibility that achieving it results in policy losses for women or groups of women currently benefiting from more targeted measures. A final concern with the basic income debate is raised by feminists from the Global South who question whether a small payment will be sufficient to address extreme poverty and inequality; and whether women will be able to control this income at the household level or be in any way better placed to resist violence.102