Care Economy: Feminist Responses to Crisis
by - 22.06.2009 17:58
The last plenary session of the WIDE Annual Conference 2009 summed up feminist concerns on care economy and care crises. In the context of the current financial, economic, social and environmental emergency, women demanded transformation of the market model, which gives preferences to capital growth and efficiency. The common sense of market citizenship should be changed to social citizenship, where issues of care provisioning and care economy are integrated.
presentation by Christa Wichterich, sociologist, publicist and gender consultant from Germany:
Feminist Responses, Demands and Perspectives
to the Financial, Economic and Care Crisis
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UNRISD study on Care Economy in Switzerland:
http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/%28httpPublications%29/2DBE6A93350A7783C12573240036D5A0?OpenDocument&panel=relatedinformation
Weltweit sind es mehrheitlich Frauen, die Kinder aufziehen und Erwachsene pflegen, also bezahlte oder unbezahlte Care Arbeit leisten. Dass die Care Ökonomie ein äusserst bedeutender Wirtschaftssektor ist, zeigt eine neue Studie des UNO-Forschungsinstituts für soziale Entwicklung (UNRISD). Die vor kurzem gegründete feministische Plattform WIDE Switzerland hat am Dienstag an einer Medienkonferenz in Bern erste Resultate für die Schweiz präsentiert und die Zusammenhänge erläutert.
UNRISD Study on The Social and Political Economy of Care
The unequal division of unpaid care between women and men has serious implications for women's access and position to labour markets, their predominance in the informal labour markets, and their weaker access to income (and hence higher rates of poverty).