Gender, Economies and Globaslisation

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What does Archer 2004 say about using a Gendered lens?
a gendered lens exposes discontinuities between mainstream scholarly work and the realities of peoples lives
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How are actors in globalisation and gender seen?
gender free
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what does globalisation do to gendered patterns?
perpetuates & potentially disrupts them
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What are the 3 things we needs to consider when gendering the global economy?
1. Making Women Empirically valuable 2. Exposing differential & gendered effects of global economic processes 3. Deconstructing gendered symbolic meanings, discourses and ideologies surrounding globalisation
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what does counting women's labour allow us to do to economic models?
challenge them
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what does Peterson 2005 say?
making women visible is "an indispensable project"
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what do we see when we make women visible in the global economy?
that unpaid and domestic labour is has real economic value and in some cases greater than key economic sectors. in 2012 the total value of unpaid care for children in the US was 3.2 trillion or 20% of the GDP
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What are the differential effects of globalisation?
when looking at globalisation we see increase of the feminization of labour and an increase of women's participation in the paid labour force
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what does True 2012 say about globalisation?
globalisation encourages migration for employment for some women but without minimum social/labour standards that protect against exploitation
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what does it mean to deconstruct symbols, discourses and ideologies when talking about the economy?
To make masculinity & femininity visible within the economy and globalisation
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What does Connell 1998 say about deconstructing symbols, discourses and ideologies?
Transnational business masculinity. within the global economy there was among men an increase in ego-centricism & conditional loyalties even to the corportation & a decrease sense of responsibility to others (except for the purpose of image making)
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When was the global financial crisis?
mid 2007-early 2009
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how did the global financial crisis make women empirically visible?
institutions that inflicted & tried to solve the GFC dominated by men e.g. only 5% of 22 key decision makers in European central bank were women @ the time of the crash. women only have 4.5% of seats on the IMF board
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What did making women visible in the GFC mean?
counting men and women provides tactical evidence for policy makers as well as arguments for activists BUT treats categories as unitary & unproblematic
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What were the differential gendered effects of the GFC?
showed the wider structural inequalities in housing and credit. e.g. Sub prime mortgages were disproportionately sold to women esp. women of colour
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what were the initial impacts of the GFC?
the man-cession initial impacts were on men & male industry 2007-9
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what were the secondary effects of the GFC?
on women - public sector job loss
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what was the political response to the the GFC?
Austerity politics in the UK. decrease on wages, prices and public spending. WoC disproportionately disadvantages due to existing economic precarity
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what were the symbols, discourses and ideologies of the GFC?
Myth of the reckless man and the prudent woman. Existentialist arguments about categorical sex differences in financial and risk taking behaviour.
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Why are essentialist views about the GFC problematic?
they obscure investigation & critique of underlying processes that contribute to reproduction of gendered systems of economic relations
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How were women seen as a solution to the GFC?
women's leadership seen as curative, women's economic activity seen as a 'solution' to women's inequality and global problems
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what does True 2016 say about viewing women as the solution?
this is a co-optation of feminism that shoves up neoliberal capitalism?
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What does Nancy Fraser say about women being the solution in the GFC?
Fails to challenge gender power relations in finacial organisations or offer structural solutions to gender inequalities
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in short, what did the GFC create?
opportunities for contesting masculinised ways of governing the global economy
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why do we need to move beyond essentialist explanations of the global economy?
so we can investigate & expose the gendered structures of the global economy & explore possibilities for change
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