<i>&quot;They are suggesting that women should receive funds on the condition that they are women.&quot;</i><p>This is not the case.  Did you read the article?<p>It is calling for a <i>universal</i> basic income, not one contingent on gender.  It says: <i>&quot;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.&quot;</i>