Women and Economy
Themes : Social justice, peace and solidarity
Explorations of economic issues do not usually take gender into account. And yet, the social roles women usually take on in society have an impact on their contribution to the economy, how they benefit from it, and the consequences they suffer. The relationship between women and the economy therefore deserves closer examination.
The supposed “objectivity” of economics and many economists conceals a subjectivity that affects economic thinking, models and analyses. This subjectivity usually ignores specific factors such as gender. Contributions to economic life, primarily measured in monetary terms, therefore usually underestimate, if not actually cover up, many activities without which life and social and economic fulfilment would be impossible. Household tasks provide a particularly significant example, since they remain women’s responsibility in most, if not all, societies. Other examples are volunteer activities and work and community initiatives that continue to a significant degree to be driven by women. Full recognition of such activities would paint a very different picture of economies and societies.
The economy is a social science and as such should take into account the practices of all components of society, of women as well as men, as well as minority practices, even if they take place on the margin of the conventional markets of the dominant economy. The unprecedented development of various forms of solidarity economy throughout the world owes a huge debt to women’s initiatives and creativity. With a major presence in all sectors of the solidarity economy, commercial, non-commercial and domestic, women are the foundations of daily economic life.
The type of documents covered under the theme of women and economy are highly diverse: theoretical, conceptual, empirical as well as accounts of actions and initiatives. They aim to document feminist approaches to the economy, approaches that denounce the dominant paradigm and propose viewpoints and analyses that take full account of gender as well as women’s position within the solidarity economy.
12 publications | 6 Videos | A pedagogical tool | 24 case studies | 31 Analyses/working papers/articles | 2 Charter/Manifesto | 7 public contributions | A thesis | 7 articles
12 publications
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in People-Centered Social Innovation Global Perspectives on an Emerging Paradigm
Linda Lundgaard Andersen, Swati Banerjee, Routledge, 2019
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Social and Solidarity Economy. Beyond the Fringe.
Peter Utting, ZED books UK, April 2015
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Social and Solidarity Economy: Beyond the Fringe? Introductory chapter
Peter Utting, April 2015
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Fair enough? Fair Trade and the quality of life amongst Bolivia’s indigenous women artisans
Development in Practice Volume 23, Issue 3, May 2013, pages 389-401
Tamara Stenn, May 2013
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Martha Lanza, March 2012
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Trading Our Way Up - The story of a women’s economic empowerment project in fair trade
Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing - Wiego, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing - Wiego, 2012
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Globalization and Third World Women. Exploitation, Coping, and Resistance.
Edited by Ligaya Lindio-McGovern, Isidor Wallimann, Syracuse University Press, New York, United States, 2012
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Economic Alternatives for Gender and Social Justice: Voices and Vision from Latin America
Luisa Antolin, Bénédicte Allaert, Martina Nuti, August 2011
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Gender, Poverty and Environmental Indicators on African Countries
2011 Volume 12
2011
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The Global Household: Toward a Feminist Postcapitalist International Political Economy
Signs, Vol. 36, No. 1, Feminists Theorize International Political Economy Special Issue Editors Shirin M. Rai and Kate Bedford (Autumn 2010), pp. 99-125; The University of Chicago Press
Maliha Safri, Benjamin Chapas, 2010
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Eco-Sufficiency and Global Justice : Women write political ecology
Ariel Salleh (ed.), London & New York : Pluto Press, 2009
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Women and Food Sovereignty Kit
Judy M. Taguiwalo, Azra Talat Sayeed, Mary Joan A. Guan, Gilbert Sape, Judy A.P. Pasimio, 2005
6 Videos
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Ideas Factory: Baba Residences in Bulgaria
Video of RIPESS Europe member
November 2020
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Reema Nanavaty, General Secretary of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)
Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: What Role for Social and Solidarity Economy? International Conference , UNTFSSE, 25 – 26 June 2019
June 2019
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Decent Work in the Care Economy
May 2016
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Basic Income Pilot Project in India
August 2014
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Creative Handicrafts - Making The World A Less Unequal Place
November 2011
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Women at the Heart of the Social and Solidarity Economy
International Forum on the Social and Solidarity Economy (FIESS)
Marino Arseno, October 2011
A pedagogical tool
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Leadership training manual for women leaders of cooperatives
ILO Publication
October 2005
24 case studies
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Weiberwirtschaft, a cooperative of women for the setting up of women’s businesses in Berlin
Article of RIPESS Europe NL, november 2020
Günther Lorenz, November 2020
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KOKOworld, Poland – an ethical brand for women created by a woman
Article of RIPESS Europe NL, november 2020
Rozalia Wiśniowska,, November 2020
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[ASEC SSE Academy] WISHALL Women In Self Help Action in Lords Love
May 2020
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Good Practice: Enhancing Food Security, Nutrition and Poverty Reduction through Self Help Groups
de Futuro del Trabajo: Buenas Prácticas de Cooperación Sur-Sur y Triangular (CSST) en Economía Social y Solidaria
Siddique Lubna, October 2019
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Promoting Gender Equality for Decent Employment in Pakistan to achieve Decent Work Country Program
de Futuro del Trabajo: Buenas Prácticas de Cooperación Sur-Sur y Triangular (CSST) en Economía Social y Solidaria
Akhlaq Hussain, October 2019
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PENGON-FOE Palestine: Empowering Women as Sustainable Energy Leaders project
Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias
PENGON-FOE Palestine, 2019
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Summary report - Advancing cooperation among women workers in the informal economy: The SEWA way
ILO
June 2018
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Transforming our world: A cooperative 2030 - Cooperative contributions to SDG 5
ILO Briefs
March 2018
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Producing and Reducing Gender Inequality in A Worker-Recovered Cooperative
The Sociological Quarterly, Vol 17, issue 1, Winter 2016
Katherine Sobering, September 2015
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Submitted to the Asian Solidarity Economy Council, on the occasion of the 5th RIPESS International Meeting of SSE, Manila, Philippines, October, 15-18, 2013.
Poonsap S. Tulaphan, October 2013
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Katosi Women’s Development Trust in Uganda: When women take a hand in their own development
International Newsletter for Sustainable Local Development Newsletter #95
Alina Darmadi, Judith Hitchman, February 2013
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The Deccan Development Society in India
International Newsletter for Sustainable Local Development Newsletter #94
Judith Hitchman, Martine Theveniaut, December 2012
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Collective Bargaining and Domestic Workers in Uruguay
Mary R. Goldsmith, December 2012
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Collective Bargaining Among Transport Workers in Georgia
Elza Jerenaia, December 2012
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Indian Sector for Self-Employed Women, December 2012
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Eléonore Dupré, November 2012
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Article published in the International Newsletter on Sustainable Local Development, #60
Yvon Poirier, July 2009
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A cooperative in India: the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)
Rajni Bakshi, September 2008
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ASSEFA : 35 Years of Service to Rural Communities of India
A holistic approach to community development
Yvon Poirier, October 2004
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Interview of Sheelu Francis, Tamil Nadu Women’s Collective, Tamil Nadu – India
Sheelu Francis is an outstanding leader of the 60 thousand-strong women’s collective, active in the whole state of Tamil Nadu, Southern India. Sheelu is also the international spokesperson for the Collective, speaking about the impacts of international trade, debt and activities of transnational corporations on local development, on food security and sovereignty.
Marcos Arruda, February 2004
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MUFFA CAMEROUN ( Mutuelle Financière des Femmes Africaines)
Case study of the Finsol workshop, Cameroun
Alice Tchepannou, June 2002
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Kashf Foundation: Towards the Economic Empowerment of Women
This document presents the foundation and gives a progress report of its financial activities between 2000 and 2002.
June 2002
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Women in the Ratnagiri Cooperative in Maharashtra, India
Nalini NAYAK, A. VIJAYAN, September 2001
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Community Networking and Solidarity
Case study of the Finsol workshop, India
31 Analyses/working papers/articles
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Sustainable societies, (feminist) economic imageries and different rationalities
Luciane Lucas Dos Santos, June 2019
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Renewable Energy: A Gender Perspective
Report IRENA
International Renewable Energy Agency, January 2019
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When the domestic is also political: redistribution by women from the South. A feminist approach
3°EMES-Polanyi International Seminar: Welfaire societies n transition, Roskilde, April 2018
Luciane Lucas Dos Santos, April 2018
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Energy and Gender: Ecofeminist views on energy
Rapporteurship of the debate - Xarxa per la sobirania energètica. La Fede, April 24th 2017
April 2017
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Women’s cooperatives : a glimpse into Rojava economic model
Hawzhin Azeez, January 2017
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Women’s Empowerment in Rural Community-Driven Development Projects
World Bank Group, 2017
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2nd EMES International Seminar
Luciane Lucas Dos Santos, 2016
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Mapping Women’s Social Entrepreneurship in Europe.Synthesis Report.
WEstart Emily Usher Shrair, September 2015
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Advancing gender equality: The co-operative way
International Labour Office, Enterprises Department. - Geneva: ILO, 2015
2015
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Gender In/equality in Worker-owned Businesses
Sociology Compass Volume 8, Issue 11,
Katherine Sobering, Jessica Thomas, Christine L. Williams, October 2014
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Ecological Economics, 2014, vol. 102, issue C, pages 60-68
Christine Bauhardt, 2014
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Where are the women? Empowerment and female participation in social and solidarity economy.
4th CIRIEC International Research Conference on Social Economy University of Antwerp, 24-26 October 2013
Vanessa Pereira Simon, Gustavo Matarazzo Rezende, Sérgio Luís Boeira, October 2013
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Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quaterly, XX, p. 1-28, 2013.
Joseph Lanfranchi, Matthieu Narcy, September 2013
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Think pieces for the UNRISD conference “Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy”. 6-8 May 2013
Tonia Warneke, May 2013
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Think pieces for the UNRISD conference “Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy”. 6-8 May 2013
Rosalinda Pineda Ofreneo, May 2013
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BEYOND HEGEMONIC ECONOMIC MAN: ECONOMIC CRISIS, FEMINIST ECONOMICS, AND THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY
Julie Matthaei, March 2012
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Tianguis Indigena: The solidarity economy and indigenous women in Mexico
Development, 2012, vol. 55, issue 3, pages 393-396
Tzinnia Carranza López, 2012
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This is a compilation of the Women’s Major Group Rio+20 position statements based on input from the March 2011 Women’s Major Group Position Paper, women’s statements presented at the Bonn UNDPI conference, the UNEP global Rio+20 consultation in Bonn and the Regional Rio+20 preparatory meetings in Santiago de Chile, Seoul, Cairo and Addis Ababa. This is a working document in continued progress. A globally developed summary of this document has been submitted as the Women’s Major Group submission for the zero-‐draft document for Rio+20. This compilation document is an annex.
November 2011
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In search of economic alternatives for gender and social justice: Voices from India
Christa WICHTERICH et all., 2010
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Report of High-level Roundtable. How a Changing Climate Impacts Women
Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations
September 2007
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Women and economy : the challenges - between resistance and social justice
Concept paper written for the WSSE Dakar, Senegal meeting (Nov 19-21,2005)
Isabelle Guérin, September 2005
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Is Quebec’s « Third Way » gender-sensitive?
Denyse Côté, Danielle Fournier, 2005
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Equal opportunity for women and men in European enterprises
Equal opportunity for women and men and the question of reconciling professional and family life constitute an important aspect of a company’s social sustainability. Three member organisations of a European network of responsible shareholders launched a campaign to contact companies they hold shares in for a status report concerning equality between women and men.
April 2004
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Sustainability and Meta-Industrial Labour: Building a Synergistic Politics
Ariel Salleh, March 2004
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Promoting rural women’s cooperative businesses in Thailand. A training kit. Part 1.
RAP publication 2004/01
Smita Premchander, V. Prameela, Wim Polman, January 2004
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In this text, the author analyses subjects such as women, gender and feminism; visibility of practices; current importance of the debate between feminism and the solidarity-based economy; limits, problems and challenges. Mirian Noble concludes: « The Solidarity-Based Economy is an ideal terrain for exercising new practices and fostering experiences based on equality and autonomy for women. »
Miriam Nobre, October 2003
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Proposals Paper for the Twenty-first Century: Women and the Economy
This Proposals Paper summarizes the work of the Women and the Economy workshop, in which more than 50 people took part via an electronic forum, and two meetings, one in Paris between October 9 and 11, 2000, and the other in Havana between April 9 and 11 2001.
Josée Belleau, Cécile Sabourin, November 2001
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The paper presents the theoretical foundations as well as the theoretical contributions of Feminist Ecological Economics. In addition, it provides some applications of Feminist Ecological Economics and discusses future trends and perspectives.
Ellie Perkins, November 2001
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Engendering International Trade - Gender equality in a global world
Text on the gender aspects of international trade and globalisation in general, and the positive and negative gains made by women.
Sonia Ruiz Garcia, November 2000
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Sustainable Trade: Women’s work?
The paper discusses the relationship between sustainability of communities and the contribution of women’s work to it.
Ellie Perkins, January 1998
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Promoting rural women’s cooperative businesses in Thailand. A training kit. Part 2.
RAP publication 2004/01
Smita Premchander, V. Prameela, Wim Polman, 01:2004
2 Charter/Manifesto
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Cooperatives Europe : Gender Equality, Charter of Commitments
October 2020
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Social Solidarity Economy (SSE) with a Gender Perspective
Declaration approved by the 5th International Meeting of Social Solidarity Economy, Manila, October 18, 2013
October 2013
7 public contributions
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[ASEC SSE Academy] Towards SSE with women in Informal Economy for Sustainability
Laila Azhar Ume, June 2020
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Engendering SSE in the Context of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda (presentation)
Rosalinda Pineda Ofreneo, November 2019
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Rosalinda Pineda Ofreneo, April 2019
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Panel “Democratically owned enterprises: a road towards international solidarity?” (3rd EMES-Polanyi International Seminar)
Luciane Lucas Dos Santos, 2017
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Japan’s Lost Decades and a Women-led Socio-Solidarity Economy
Contribution to Asian Solidarity Economy Forum 2009
Yoko Kitazawa, April 2009
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The Women and Solidarity Economics Hyderabad Seminar
Final report of the Women and Solidarity Economics seminar co-hosted by the Center for World Solidarity (Secunderabad, India) and the Women and Economy Workshop, Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World. The seminar took place in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India from January 9-11 2004.
Josée Belleau, January 2004
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Economy of solidarity and women
Reflections of the author on how to take into account women experiences of the economy in solidarity.
Cécile Sabourin, November 2000
A thesis
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Multispecies Ecofeminism:. Ecofeminist Flourishing of the Twenty-First Century.
MASTER OF ARTS in the Department of Sociology, University of Victoria, Canada
Chelsea Power, 2016
7 articles
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Rojava : An Overview of AANES Women’s Institutions in Manbij
Article of Mesopotamia coop, August 2020
August 2020
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Kobane • Cooperatives as a tool for women’s empowerment
Article of Kedistan, 8 May 2018
May 2018
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When Indian women negotiate with local authorities to improve their lives in a slum
Article de The Conversation, 22/03/2018
Kanupriya Kothiwal, Shrey Goel, March 2018
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Coops in the Kurdish Movement, an Emancipation Tool for Women
Aricle of Kedistan, Nov 8, 2017
November 2017
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Municipalism and the Feminization of Politics
Issue #6 Roar Magazine Oct 2017
Laura Roth, Kate Shea Baird, October 2017
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Solidarity Economy Part III : Key Rights Underlying the Solidarity Economy in Brazil
Article RIOONWATCH Jan 28, 2017
Patrice LOVESSE, January 2017
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Solidarity Economy Part II: Female Protagonists
Article RIOONWATCH Nov 7, 2016
Anna Cash, November 2016