Neither Hartsock nor Rose is committed to a romantic celebration of woman's caring and reproductive work as it is currently institutionalized in patriarchal and capitalist societies. Rose points out the differences between caring for children, for sick or aged dependants, and for husbands or partners, and emphasizes the contradictory character of many of these caring roles when carried out under social and cultural conditions which distort them through coercion, devalue them, and fail to resource or reward them.