COVID-19 PANDEMIC
IAFFE Presents:
FEMINIST ECONOMICS PERSPECTIVE ON COVID-19
April 15, 2020
- An online panel event. Panelists include Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Jeanine Anderson, Catholic University of Peru; and Naila Kabeer, London School of Economics. The discussion was moderated by James Heintz, UMass Amherst.
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FEMINIST MACROECONOMICS AND THE IMPACT OF COVID-19
May 6, 2020
- An onlline panel event. Panelists include Diane Elson, University of Essex; Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Stephanie Seguino, University of Vermont. The discussion was moderated by Elissa Braunstein, Colorado State University.
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COVID-19 & FEMINIST POLITICAL ECONOMY
May 22, 2020
- An online panel event, featuring Jennifer Cohen, Miami University; Luiza Nassif Pires, Levy Institute; and Smriti Rao, Assumption College. The discussion will be moderated by Radhika Balakrishnan, Rutgers University.
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COVID-19: INEQUALITIES IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
June 5, 2020
- An online panel event, featuring Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona (The Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights); Ashwini Deshpande (Ashoka University); Ípek Ílkkaracan (Istanbul Technical University); and Abena Oduro (University of Ghana). The disucssion will be moderated by Naila Kabeer (London School of Economics).
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COVID-19 & RACIALIZED AND MARGINALIZED GROUPS
June 19, 2020
- An online panel event, featuring Amie Bishop, OutRight International; Cruz Bueno, State University of New York, New Paltz; Michelle Holder, John Jay College, City University of New York; and Judith LeBlanc; Native Organizers Alliance, with moderation by Lynda Pickbourn, UMass Amherst.
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Statement on Universal Social Provisioning
IAFFE, the largest academic association for feminist economists, champions universal social provisioning as both a fundamental value and the only way to lay a strong foundation for sustained and ecologically-attuned social life. In light of the coronavirus, IAFFE calls for the immediate and urgent implementation of a gender-equitable universal basic income and the provision of essential services, ensuring that individuals are not marginalized or excluded because of their race, ethnicity, or caste. Essential services such as food and housing should be accompanied by universal healthcare, public care services including child and elder care and education, strengthened labor protections, and rigorous safeguarding of the public interest. These measures will recover the purchasing power of individuals and households, particularly those in vulnerable situations, boosting aggregate demand. Through international collaboration and appropriate macroeconomic policies, national governments should be enabled to expand their fiscal space and finance these investments.
IAFFE Listserv Highlights: COVID-19
There has been a rich discussion on the IAFFE listserv, which is open to both members and non-members. While we don’t ordinarily compile them, we thought some of the following links shared there could be useful to members who may not be on the listserv, or haven’t had the time to read through the emails. Thank you to Nancy Folbre for kicking off the discussion with several of these links via that the Carework Network, and several others who contributed in response.
To participate in the discussion and with IAFFE supporters more generally, please join the IAFFE listserv here.
MARCH 2020
APRIL 2020
- The Pandemic from an Ecological Economics Perspective by Eric Miller, arguing that creating care jobs addresses boht the pandemic and climate issues, with implicit implications for gender, submitted by Ellie Perkins.
- We Need Class, Race, and Gender Sensitive Policies to Fight the COVID-19 Crisis by (and submitted by) Luiza Nassif Pires and others, as well as their policy brief on inequality aspects of the coronavirus and household production.
- Delaying 'nonessential' abortion during coronavirus crisis endangers women's health and finance future, an Op-Ed in The Conversation by (and submitted by) Yana Rodgers, citing a number of scholarly studies including the special issue of Feminist Economics just published on women's reproductive health and economic empowerment.
- Sex, Gender and Influenza, a relevant WHO report from 2010, submitted by Smriti Rao.
- COVID-19 and lockdowns: Are women more affected?, a UNU-WIDER blog, and There is need for a calibrated approach to end the lockdown, testing will be key, an Indian Express edit page, both by (and submitted by) Bina Agarwal.
- Three pieces from WISER Policy: Show Me the Data, But Disaggregate It First, by Rhonda Sharpe, The Food Injustices of COVID-19 on Black Communities, by Nina Banks, and an infographic on COVID-19 and custodial grandparents, submitted by Nina Banks.
- A petition published in Italian on the online magazine Ingenere.it, in response to the recent "Cura Italia" degree, which does not take care of domestic workers, home-based caregivers for the elderly, and child minders. English translation here. Sign here. Submitted by Nance Folbre. In addition, for those who wish to submit to inGenere, Marcella Corsi shares this contact information: redazione@ingenere.it
- Cuba's Policies to Confront the COVID-19 Pandemic, by Ailynn Torres Santana and Maria Jose Espinosa Carrillo, submitted by Anamary Maqueira Linares.
- 'Absurd' rules obstruct abortion access in Italy during COVID-19 by Francesca Visser in Open Democracy, as well as a petition (in Italian) to support the access to abortion network, submitted by Alessandra Mezzadri.
- Additional links via Nance Folbre via Care Talk: Italian Feminists: In Defense of Caregivers, The Care Theory of Value, Are We All Care Workers Now?, View from a Blue Rurality.
- Lessons from the Coronavirus: The socialization of care work is not 'just' a women's issue, by (and submitted by) Smriti Rao.
- The Pandemic and the Female Academic by Alessandra Minello in Nature, submitted by Jennifer Olmsted.
- A crisis like no other: social reproduction and the regeneration of capitalist life during the COVID-19 pandemic, by (and submitted by) Alessandra Mezzadri.
- Trying times: how might the lockdown change time use in families? by (and submitted by) Almudena Sevilla and IFS colleagues.
- Shocks caused by COVID-19: Addressing chronic poverty, its inter-generational transfer, and the two-part analysis Union Budget 2020-21: A Critical Analysis from the Gender Perspective and Union Budget 2020-21: Contrasting States and the Centre’s Approach to Gender Budgeting, submitted by Aasha Kapur Mehta.
- Planning for Post-Corona: Five proposals to craft a radically more sustainable and equal world, by (and submitted by) Karin Astrid Siegmann and others.
- Building Bridges, Not Walking on Backs: A Feminist Economic Recovery Plan for COVID-19 for Hawai'i, by (and submitted by) Amanda Shaw (and others).