Problems with this argument:
1. They assume that women don't choose to do this work and are forced to.
2. Women should have no reason to work (As that they should be paid without any outcome expected)
3. Women are always honest and productive workers. (Thus deserving of the money)
This isn't equality. That's blatant sexism.
"The feminist argument for a U.B.I. is that it’s a way to reimburse mothers and other caregivers for the heavy lifting they now do free of charge. "
Also why isn't the post the title of the article? So clickbaity now.
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"Breaking out of traditional work roles" So that means that you're asking a handout to change social roles in a society?
The quote I even referenced included "and other caregivers". This isn't "let's just pay women cause they're women" even if people want to get all up in arms about that and make a strawman. I'm thinking you didn't even bother to read the article.
This is not the case. Did you read the article?
It is calling for a universal basic income, not one contingent on gender. It says: "It’s an odd kind of reparations, you may object, that goes to fathers as well as mothers, the unattached as well as those with family responsibilities. But entertain this radical proposition: The universal basic income is a necessary condition for a just society, for it recognizes the fact that most of us — men, women, parents and nonparents — do a great deal of unpaid work to sustain the general well-being."
"It’s an odd kind of reparations, you may object, that goes to fathers as well as mothers, the unattached as well as those with family responsibilities."