feminism
The fight for climate justice must be feminist, anti-racist and anti-capitalist What does a feminist perspective mean? Feminism is constituted by a wide range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements across the globe that share the common goal to define, establish, and achieve the political, economic, social and personal equality of the sexes. At the same time, feminist movements fight against gender stereotypes, deconstructing roles and images that are attributed to the biological sex of men and women that most often go along with giving less...
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Austerity, Gender Inequality and Feminism after the Crisis in Croatia When we first started to look at various data, we found that both men and women in Croatia suffered grave consequences of the recent economic crisis. Only when we turned our eye to the devastation that happened during the 1990s and in the early 2000s did it became possible to see the different effects of cuts to social services and privatisation processes on women as a group. In a way, for Croatia the impact of austerity measures, since it declared its independence, can be best...
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Interviews with Inés Campillo Poza (Spain), Pauline Cullen (Ireland) and Aliki Kosyfologou (Greece)Our interviewees talk about how austerity has gendered effects in their respective countries and how those effects articulate in very similar ways despite of different economic and social contexts. The interviewees refer repeatedly to the case studies they have written. Those studies have been published recently on our website and are available for download on this page: When the Belt Can't Get Any Tighter Videos Pauline Cullen (Ireland), duration 5,27 min. Aliki...
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Austerity, Gender Inequality and Feminism after the Crisis in RussiaRussia has been experiencing the results of an acute economic crisis since 2012. However, the government has not been explicit in its declarations regarding austerity policies. On the contrary, it tends to represent its measures as "normal" and generally justifies cuts to public expenditure and reduced spending as part of a new understanding of the welfare state and socio-economic relations. Nevertheless, there is a clear connection...
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Austerity, Gender Inequality and Feminism after the Crisis in UkraineFollowing the Euromaidan, the outbreak of war and ensuing economic crisis, the Ukrainian government introduced wide-ranging reforms guided by the neoliberal idea that stability and economic growth can be generated by cutting social spending. Despite the government's proclaimed intent to support the poorest and weakest members of Ukrainian society, the opposite has occurred, and the negative effects of the new reforms have ended up targeting them most. Women in Ukraine...
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Austerity, Gender Inequality and Feminism after the Crisis in IrelandWe find austerity is gendered and that, following almost a decade of austerity, the position of women in Ireland has regressed economically and socially. Different dynamics shape gendered austerity which in some instances re-feminises care, while in other instances forces a process of de-domestication for some women. Contradictions in state policy produce ambiguities that arise when family policy creates logics that pull women towards caring roles while labour market policy...
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Austerity, Gender Inequality and Feminism after the Crisis in SpainThe international financial crisis that began in 2007 hit the Spanish economy hard, accelerating the housing market's collapse and increasing unemployment (which rose from 9.6% in 2008 to 26.9% in 2013) and the risk of poverty. The European Union intensified its pressure on Spain in spring 2010, as Zapatero's government approved the first package of austerity measures in May of that year, along with labour market and pension reforms later on. Austerity measures were...
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Mapping the impacts of austerity on women's lives across Europe"Without us, the world stops working" – This was the slogan under which millions of Spanish women launched a general strike on 8 March 2018. The strike was more than just a strike, however, giving women the opportunity to discuss different related topics and engage in processes of self-organization around questions like work, care, and consumption (read more about the strike). No other left-wing social movement has protested and organized against patriarchal structures on a global scale as...
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Austerity, Gender Inequality and Feminism after the Crisis in GreeceThough austerity has prevailed across Europe to varying degrees, Greece in particular faces a situation of permanent austerity. The fiscal consolidation programs implemented since 2010 have brought extensive cuts to the public sector, over-taxation, privatizations, institutional reforms, devaluation of labour, high unemployment and precariousness. The social crisis provoked by fiscal austerity has also had major negative impacts on gender equality, undermining...
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Report of a European Parliament lunch session | 25 April 2018Women are hit twice by austerity – as workers in sectors double affected by structural reforms and as social security recipients. This is demonstrated by case studies from ten European countries commissioned by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in 2017. Despite recent growth accelerations, the European economies do not live up to their promise of ending austerity. Poverty remains a daunting scenario for large parts of the population, aggravated by insecure and low-paid employment, shrinking social...
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