Feminist Perspectives on Class and Work

This essay suggests to bring together two aspects of economic thought which so far have developed largely separately: degrowth and feminist economics. In this strive, the concept of care work and its role in feminist economics will be introduced and the downsides of the commodification of care work will be discussed. Subsequently, contributions to the discussion on the (re)valuation of care work will be taken into account.

In der Einleitung zum Sammelband "Wirtschaft neu lehren - Erfahrungen aus der pluralen, sozioökonomischen Hochschullehre" stellen die Autor:innen die Motivation des Projektes dar: Die wirtschaftlichen Krisenphänomene und aktuellen Herausforderungen müssen auch die ökonomische Hochschullehre verändern. Sie legen dar, wie eine neue Generation von Ökonom:innen dieses bereits für die VWL und die Lehramtsfächer praktziert, und wagen hieraus erste Schlüsse zu ziehen.

Este programa de estudios ofrece una visión general de los contenidos del curso Género y Economía de la Facultad de Economía de la Universidad de la República de Uruguay.

This article provides a contextual framework for understanding the gendered dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic and its health, social, and economic outcomes. The pandemic has generated massive losses in lives, impacted people’s health, disrupted markets and livelihoods, and created profound reverberations in the home. In 112 countries that reported sex-disaggregated data on COVID-19 cases, men showed an overall higher infection rate than women, and an even higher mortality rate. However, women’s relatively high representation in sectors hardest hit by lockdown orders has translated into larger declines in employment for women than men in numerous countries. Evidence also indicates that stay-at-home orders have increased unpaid care workloads, which have fallen disproportionately to women. Further, domestic violence has increased in frequency and severity across countries. The article concludes that policy response strategies to the crisis by women leaders have contributed to more favorable outcomes compared to outcomes in countries led by men.