Feminist proposals for a just, equitable and sustainable post-COVID-19 economic recovery

February 2021

Briefing: The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed systemic and entrenched inequalities at the global level. Although governments, international institutions and other actors have responded rapidly to the pandemic, such responses have primarily resulted in ‘quick fixes’. Meanwhile feminist proposals for a truly transformative economic recovery have largely remained unheard.

Against this backdrop, feminists worldwide have been devising and calling for alternative solutions in key macroeconomic policy areas. This briefing collates and highlights these alternative proposals for transformative change, centring the voices of actors who are often-overlooked - feminist economists, feminist and women’s rights organisations and feminist networks in the Global South. It concludes by proposing a new macroeconomic model for a just, equitable and sustainable post-COVID-19 recovery.

The Gender and Development Network, NAWI Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective and FEMNET would like to acknowledge the work of the very many people whose analysis and ideas are covered in this briefing.