WOMENST 1A03 Lecture : Women's Studies-Jan.16&19 "Feminist Economics" and "Gender Identities in the Nation and State"
Document Summary
Film: if women counted: a new feminist economics . How is labour gendered? (how is femininity connected to the work women perform) Economic anxiety" suspicions that things are as they seem; economics, seemingly. The care and management of a household economoikos". Gdp no connection to the status of education, social, productivity etc. Despite the 16-1hour working days; they are labelled as unproductive, without economic labour, leisure time". The time and activities in comparison (women and men) shows a disproportionate distribution of work loads and time spent. Those invisible to the nation productivity wise, are invisible in the distribution of benefits. Impossible to prove the need for childcare facilities (as a politician) Gender ideology and the division of labour - nation and global contexts: women"s. Gendered identities in nations and states labour not considered: three levels of invisibility of women"s unpaid work: Economic invisibility (as outlined by mary warring) Ideological invisibility: not socially coded as real work or coded as.