ATS2624 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gender Mainstreaming, Informal Sector, Social Reproduction

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25 May 2018

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Global Governance - Lecture 4 – Gender and Global Governance

- the problem - gender inequality

- gender of governance - gender balance

- governance of gender - gender mainstreaming or gender as smart economics

approach

maria mease - patriarchy on a global scale

- iceberg economy

- informal economy

- housework - social and emotional - production of human beings

- feminist view on economy - question what the economy is? all the forms of

economic activity

- global feminisation

• formalised

• informal - casual, contract labour, outsourcing, home-working, careworn

• unpaid - social reproduction, care work

• casualisation of labour

- equalising down

• value of wages is declining in comparison to the cost to live

• labour conditions are not improving - dealing rate of wages and

intesification of work with globalisation

• men are increasingly feminised as employees in precarious forms of

employment without benefits or security

• work of women valued less - used to be done for free before entering the

cash economy

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