Gender and the Economic Crisis

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Editor(s)

Sweetman, Caroline
Pearson, Ruth

Publication date

2011-02-10

Series

Working in Gender and Development

Document type

Book

Description

The current global economic crisis is expected to lead to millions more people being pushed into extreme poverty. The effects are profoundly different for women and men, and the existing gender inequalities and power imbalances mean that additional problems are falling disproportionately on those who are already structurally disempowered and marginalised. The economic crisis is the latest element in a complex web of shocks and longer-term traumas affecting women, men and their families in developing countries. These include food and fuel shocks, changing climatic conditions, and the HIV pandemic. For many people living in poverty, these crises are experienced as one multifaceted crisis, which has accentuated already-existing underlying chronic concerns in both the productive and the reproductive (care) economies of the world. While these issues remain largely invisible to mainstream economists and policymakers, they are critical to the development of effective and sustainable responses to the crisis. Contributors to this book come from a range of international perspectives and begin to map the impact on women and men and their families in different contexts, and suggest policy and practice changes. Authors include key figures in the research field as well as policymakers and development practitioners, who analyse, with first-hand experience, the initial impacts of the economic crisis in South and East Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Introduction; The global economic crisis, its gender and ethnic implications, and policy responses; Gender and the global economic crisis in developing countries: A framework for analysis; Critical times: gendered implications of the economic crisis for migrant workers from Burma/Myanmar in Thailand; Feminized recession: impact of the global financial crisis on women garment workers in the Philippines; Securing the fruits of their labours: the effect of the crisis on women farm workers in Peru's Ica valley; Cheap and disposable? The impact of the global economic crisis on the migration of Ethiopian women domestic workers to the Gulf; The effects of the global economic crisis on women in the informal economy: research fi ndings from WIEGO and the Inclusive Cities partners; How the global economic crisis reaches marginalized workers: the case of street traders in Johannesburg, South Africa; Crisis, care and childhood: the impact of economic crisis on care work in poor households in the developing world; Resources; Index

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178

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http://hdl.handle.net/10546/121671

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