Women's Work and the Limits of Capitalism

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.

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.

Nicolas Da Silva explore ici l'histoire du système de santé français et de la protection sociale. Depuis ses origines jusqu'au développement moderne de ce que l'auteur nomme capitalisme sanitaire, l'auteur met en lumière la nature historique et conflictuelle du système français, produit de luttes sociales, qui tranche avec l'étatisme et …

Dabei ging es um verschiedene Formen von (ökonomischer) Ungleichheit, wie man diese erforschen kann und was sie für Auswirkungen hat. Insbesondere ging es um Miriams aktuelle Forschung zur Vermögensungleichheit und dem Gender Wealth Gap.