Feminist Macroeconomic Proposals: Rebuilding More Equitable, Just and Sustainable Economies post-COVID-19
As post-pandemic economic recovery plans unfold globally, feminists and women’s rights organisations are devising proposals and calling for transformative solutions for a post-COVID-19 recovery that shape economic policy making for decades to come.
Below is a list of feminist macroeconomic proposals put forward by feminist economists, feminist and women’s rights organisations, and feminist networks as well as related global coalitions and alliances. They provide an indication of the wealth of feminist alternatives that exist and can be a resource for other feminists advocating for change.
Alongside the list of resources is a data table containing the same information in addition to enabling filter options based on author, organisational affiliation (where applicable), date and theme/subtheme.
We have included as many perspectives from feminists and women’s rights organisations from the South as possible. Please continue to refer back here as we continue to add more proposals to this page.
At the onset of the pandemic, we also started collating resources from feminists from across the world who have been examining its gendered impacts across different thematic areas. These historic feminist responses to Covid-19 can be found here.
General
Work
- Domestic Workers During the COVID-19 Crisis: Pathways of Impact, Recovery and Resilience in Six Cities (Ghida Ismail, Ana Carolina Ogando for WIEGO, February 2023)
- Webinar: Our Labour Rights in the Face of the Onslaught of Corporate Power - Feminist Visions and Alternatives (DAWN, December 2021)
- Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Research Highlights Significant Increase in Growth-Oriented Women Entrepreneurs Worldwide (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), November 2021)
- Informal women workers and missed opportunities: The pandemic economic stimulus package in Kenya (Carolyne Ajema, Kirabo Suubi, Naome Wandera, Cleopatra Mugyenyi & Chryspin Afifu for International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) Africa Hub, September 2021)
- The labour market implications of COVID-19 for Bangladeshi women (Sayema Haque Bidisha & Avinno Faruk, July 2021)
- COVID-19 and informal work: Evidence from 11 cities (Martha Alter Chen, Erofili Grapsa, Ghida Ismail, Michael Rogan, Marcela Valdivia, Laura Alfers, Jenna Harvey, Ana Carolina Ogando, Sarah Orleans Reed, Sally Roever, June 2021)
- COVID-19 Cost Women Globally Over $800 Billion In Lost Income In One Year (Oxfam Canada, April 2021)
- “We also deserve help during the pandemic”: The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong (Ingrid D. Luia, Nimisha Vandana, Sara E. Davies, Sophie Harman, Rosemary Morgand, Julia Smith, Clare Wenham& Karen Ann Grépin, March 2021)
- Research Paper: Women's cooperatives & COVID-19: Learning and the way forward (Salonie Muralidhara Hiriyur & Nikita Chettr for SEWA Cooperative Federation, November 2020)
- Women's Cooperatives & COVID-19 (Salonie Muralidhara Hiriyur and Nikita Chettri, November 2020)
- COVID-19 Impact on Informal Women Workers and their Cooperatives Recommendations from SEWA Cooperative Federation(SEWA Cooperative Federation, September 2020)
- Women’s rights should shape universal social protection as a COVID-19 response (Roosje Saalbrink for Womankind Worldwide, August 2020)
- The Covid-19 Pandemic and Lockdown: First Order Effects on Gender Gaps in Employment and Domestic Time Use in India (Ashwini Deshpande, July 2020)
- Impact of COVID-19 on Women Workers in the Horticulture Sector in East and Southern Africa (Hivos People Unlimited, July 2020)
- The Early Impact of Covid-19 on Job Losses among Black Women in the United States (Michelle Holder, Janelle Jones & Thomas Masterson, July 2020)
- The Effect Of The COVID-19 Pandemic On Women Labour Related Rights (Hivos People Unlimited and Akina Mama Wa Afrika)
- Impact of COVID-19 on India’s Female Labour Force Participation (Aparna Sivaraman, June 2020)
- COVID-19 puts women working in SIDS tourism industry at risk (Simonetta Zarrilli and Nursel Aydiner-Avsar, May 2020)
- Philippines: Informal Workers face brunt of COVID-19 Lockdown (Joseph Purugganan)
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality (Titan Alon, Matthias Doepke, Jane Olmstead-Rumsey & Michèle Tertilt, April 2020)
- How the COVID-19 pandemic will affect informal workers. Insights from Kenya (Njeri Kinyanjui, March 2020)
- ‘Stay Home’ and Work? Implications of COVID-19 and the UK Governmental Response for Self-Employed Women (Haya Al-Dajani, Angela M. Dy, Carol Ekinsmyth, Sally Jones, Lorna Treanor, Julia Rouse, Natalia Vershinina, March 2020)
- The many faces of labor markets’ vulnerability for women in the Global South amid COVID-19 (Erika Martínez Fernández, Lina Tafur Marín, Pablo Cortés & Susana Martinez-Restrepo for Cepei)
Tax
- Every cent lost to tax havens could be used to strengthen our health and social systems (Cynthia Umurungi Tax Justice Network Africa, March 2020)
Trade
- The Impact of the EU’s Opposition to the WTO TRIPS Waiver Proposal on COVID 19 Vaccines (Kumudini Samuel for Feminists for a People’s Vaccine Campaign submitted by DAWN, TWN & IWRAW, October 2021)
- Gender & COVID-19 Research Agenda Setting in Asia Pacific: Vaccinations (Gender & COVID-19, October 2021)
- Female Traders in Zimbabwe: Economic struggles amidst the COVID-19 pandemic (Nyaradzo Ruwisi for Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, May 2021)
- International Trade & Investment Rules, Intellectual Property Rights And Covid-19: A Perspective From The South (DAWN Feminist and Third World Network, May 2021)
- Vaccinating Against COVID-19 Inequities: the view from Asia (Dushni Weerakoon for Southern Voice, May 2021)
- We need a people’s vaccine, not vaccine apartheid! (Julia Ngozi Chukwuma, February 2021)
- The Impact Of The COVID-19 Pandemic On Women Informal Cross-Border Traders In Zambia (Southern Africa Trust, OSISA, tralac, January 2021)
- Covid-19 And Its Impact On Women In Trade In The EAC (The Eastern African Sub-Regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women (EASSI), November 2020)
Debt
- Formerly colonized people can't breath. And the IMF and World Bank are to blame (Felogene Anumo for AWID, October 2021)
Austerity
- Gendered Austerity in the COVID-19 Era: A Survey of Fiscal Consolidation in Ecuador and Pakistan (Bhumika Muchhala, Vanessa Daza Castillo and Andrea Guillem, 2022)
- Adding Fuel to Fire: How IMF demands for austerity will drive up inequality worldwide (Nona Tamale for Oxfam, August 2021)
- India—like the rest of the world—is moving away from the path of economic austerity (Manavi Kapur, February 2021)
- Warning: May Contain Austerity - How the international response to Covid-19 threatens a return to austerity measures that undermine women’s rights (Jessica Woodroffe (GADN) with contributions from Emma Burgisser (Bretton Woods Project), December 2020)
Public services
- Fiscal policies, public services and the Beijing agenda for women’s rights (Corina Rodríguez Enríquez & Noemi Giosa Zuazúa for Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Public Services International, March 2021)
- Why Nigeria knows better how to fight corona than the US (Crystal Simeoni for Nawi Africa, March 2021)
- Direct and indirect impacts of the coronavirus in developing countries (Akina Mama Wa Afrika, FEMNET & Gender and Development Network, May 2020)
- Financing Needs of Developing Countries in the wake of Covid-19: The Role of Special Drawing Rights (Esra Uğurlu, May 2020)
- The socio-economic impact of COVID-19 in Uganda: Modelling one-off transfers (UNICEF)
- Social Protections During Covid-19 (WeRise Coalition)
Corporate accountability
- Unchecked corporate power paved the way for COVID-19, and globally, women are at the frontlines (Felogene Anumo for AWID, March 2020)
General
- Connecting Citizens to Science – S6E3 – Gendered dynamics of the Covid-19 pandemic (Podcast) (Dr Brunah Schall & Dr Julia Smith, June 2022)
- Feminist Economics: Economy by and for all (Panel with Jayati Ghosh and Ricarda Lang, May 2022)
- Women’s economic empowerment in the face of Covid-19 and displacement: restoring resilient futures (Clare Clingain, Daphne Jayasinghe, Abigail Hunt & Amanda Gray Meral for IRC & ODI, October 2021)
- Podcast: The future is already here (ILO, September 2021)
- Priorities for a fair recovery from COVID-19 in South Asia (Sajid Amin Javed, Vaqar Ahmed & Sara Zafar Cheema for Southern Voice, September 2021)
- Why we need a gender-sensitive pandemic management (Poonam Kathuria, Karen Pinerio, Krishna Keshwani & Neha Chavda for SWATI, August 2021)
- COVID-19 disparities by gender and income: Evidence from the Philippines (Rouselle F. Lavado, Keiko Nowacka, David A. Raitzer, Yana Van Der Meulen Rodgers, Joseph E. Zveglich Jr, July 2021)
- What does Women’s Economic Justice mean to you? An interview with Shanti Uprety (Rebecca Wilton for Care International, July 2021)
- More than a public health crisis: A feminist political economic analysis of COVID-19 (Julia Smith, Sara E. Davies, Huiyun Feng, Connie C. R. Gan, Karen A. Grépin, Sophie Harman, Asha Herten-Crabb, Rosemary Morgan, Nimisha Vandan & Clare Wenham, March 2021)
- Feminist Political Economy of Health: Current Perspectives and Future Directions (Iffath Unissa Syed, February 2021)
- Webinar: Gender and COVID-19: a feminist economics lens (Naila Kabeer, February 2021)
- COVID-19 in the Global South: Impacts and policy responses (Lorena Alcázar, Debapriya Bhattacharya, Estefania Charvet, Tausi Kida, Desmond Mushi, Dirk Willem te Velde & Andrea Ordoñez for Southern Voice, February 2021)
- Invisible lives, missing voices: Putting women and girls at the center of post-COVID-19 recovery and reconstruction (Damaris Seleina Parsitau, January 2021)
- Drivers of Disparity: How Policy Responses to COVID-19 Can Increase Inequalities (Mma Amara Ekeruche for CSEA, January 2021)
- Community Organizing During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ecuador (Angie Clara Farfán García, December 2020)
- COVID-19: EveryWoman's Feminist Response and Recovery Plan (Sylvia Estrada Claudio, October 2020)
- Gendered Dimensions of The Economic Impacts of Covid-19 In Uganda: A Technical Brief (Hivos People Unlimited and Akina Mama Wa Afrika, July 2020)
- Civil Society Statement on the impacts of COVID-19 on women and girls Presenters: Marisa Hutchinson and Shanti Uprety, 76th CEDAW Session 29 June 2020 (Marisa Hutchinson & Shanti Uprety for IWRAW AP, June 2020)
- APWLD Survey on COVID-19 (APWLD, April 2020)
- Podcast: African Feminist and Anti-Capitalist Responses to COVID-19: Labor, Health and Ecological Questions (African EcoFeminisms, April 2020)
- The pandemic does not discriminate; inequalities do: women cushioning the crisis (Aylinn Torres Santana for Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, April 2020)
System Change
- COVID-19 Recovery and Beyond: An African Feminist Vision for Macroeconomic System Change (Wangari Kinoti and Fatimah Kelleher, May 2022)
- COVID-19: the turning point for gender equality (Senait Fisseha, Gita Sen, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Winnie Byanyima, Debora Diniz, Henrietta H Fore, Natalia Kanem, Ulrika Karlsson, Rajat Khosla, Laura Laski, Dina Mired, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Tlaleng Mofokeng, Geeta Rao Gupta, Achim Steiner, Michelle Remme & Pascale Allotey, July 2021)
- Technology & digital transformation during COVID-19: The missing link in advancing gender equality in Kenya (Serah Nduta, Carolyne Ajema & Laura Hinson for International Center for Research on Women, July 2021)
- Press Release: UN Forum on Sustainable Development fails to respond to the global crises (Asia Pacific Regional CSOs Engagement Mechanism, July 2021)
- Building Forward Fairer: Women’s rights to work and at work at the core of the COVID-19 recovery (ILO, July 2021)
- A Feminist Agenda for People and Planet: Principles and Recommendations for a Global Feminist Economic Justice Agenda (Diyana Yahaya for Action Nexus for Generation Equality, June 2021)
- COVID-19 and women's nutrition security: panel data evidence from rural India (Soumya Gupta, Payal Seth, Mathew Abraham & Prabhu Pingali, June 2021)
- The social protection response to COVID-19 has failed women: Towards universal gender-responsive social protection systems (Shahra Razavi for UN Women, June 2021)
- Feminist Economic Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic (Naila Kabeer, Shahra Razavi & Yana van del Meulen Rodgers, March 2021)
- Webinar: A Tapestry of Women’s Voices Fighting the Multiple Crises (CSW65 NGO Virtual Parallel Event organised by APMDD, EURODAD, AKSI!, and, Solidaritas Perempuan, March 2021)
- Women Entrepreneurs: Surviving the Pandemic and Beyond - Annual Audit of Women Entrepreneurs in Low and Middle Income Countries (Sian Hawkins for Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, March 2021)
- Brazilian workers call for international solidarity from the global epicentre of the pandemic (Public Services International, March 2021)
- Policy Brief: Informal work in South Africa and COVID-19: Gendered Impacts and Priority Interventions (Caroline Skinner, Jane Barrett, Laura Alfers & Michael Rogan for WIEGO, February 2021)
- The Inequality Virus: Bringing together a world torn apart by coronavirus (Oxfam, January 2021)
- Feminist Principles: The Private Sector and Multilateralism (Sanam Amin for Action Nexus for Generation Equality, 2021)
- Exposing the Fault Lines (Madeleine Rees for WILPF, December 2020)
- What has COVID-19 Taught Us about Neoliberalism? (Nela Porobić Isaković for WILPF, December 2020)
- ESCR-Net members calls on the IMF to stop promoting austerity measures during the recovery process (ESCR-Net, November 2020)
- Another World is Possible: Advancing feminist economic alternatives to secure rights, justice and autonomy for women and a fair, green, gender equal world (Rachel Noble, Rachel Walker, Lila Caballero and Asha Herten for ActionAid, November 2020)
- Paying for the Pandemic and a Just Transition (Ben Tippet for Transnational Institute, November 2020)
- A Rights-Based Economy: Putting people and planet first (Kate Donald, with substantive inputs from Ignacio Saiz, Sergio Chaparro, Allison Corkery, Marianna Leite, Nadia Saracini & Matti Kohonen for CESR & Christian Aid, October 2020)
- Gender, COVID-19 and Food Systems: impacts, community responses and feminist policy demands (Jessica Duncan & Priscilla Claeys for Women’s Working Group of the Civil Society & Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism, October 2020)
- Spotlight Report 2020: Shifting policies for systemic change: Lessons from the global COVID-19 crisis (Barbara Adams, Roberto Bissio, Daria Cibrario, María Graciela Cuervo, Kate Donald, Jens Martens, Stefano Prato & Ziad Abdel Samad for DAWN, Social Watch, PSI, Global Policy Forum, Centre for Economic and Social Rights, Society for International Development & Aran NGO Network for Development, September 2020)
- Recovering Rights: Government's Obligation to Ensure Substantive Gender Equality (IWRAW AP, CESR, August 2020)
- Webinar: People Power and the Pandemic (Transnational Institute, July 2020)
- How COVID-19 reveals the paradoxes of neoliberal logic (Kiasha Naidoo, July 2020)
- Sub-Saharan countries are taking on more debt, and women will bear the brunt of repaying it (Matthew Barlow, Jean Grugel & Jessica Omukuti, July 2020)
- African Feminist Post-Covid-19 Economic Recovery Statement (African Feminism, June 2020)
- From the Pandemic to 2030: Feminists want system change (Women's Major Group, June 2020)
- ECLAC Calls for Adopting Comprehensive Policies for an Economic Reactivation that Guarantees Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (ECLAC, June 2020)
- Webinar: Economics of COVID-19 in Africa: African Feminist Perspectives (Lyn Ossome & Crystal Simeoni for Makerere University; Nawi: Afrifrem Macroeconomics Collective, June 2020)
- CMI! Recommendations on COVID-19 and women’s human rights (Count Me in Consortium, June 2020)
- Dialogue 2: Learning from the Crisis (JASS, June 2020)
- Statement at Forum on Financing for Development meeting: Financing a Sustainable Recovery from COVID-19 (Emilia Reyes for Women’s Working Group on FFD, June 2020)
- Putting Gender, Care and Climate Justice at the Heart of post-COVID19 Recovery (Somali Cerise & Dr. Sarah Cook for Institute for Global Development, June 2020)
- Webinar: COVID-19 in Africa: An opportunity for structural transformation? (Awino Okech; Brian Kagoro; Godwin Murunga & Everjoice Win for SOAS; Open Society Foundations; CODESRIA & ActionAid, May 2020)
- Fighting COVID-19 requires working-class power - Lessons from the Indian State of Kerala (Samantha Agarwal, May 2020)
- Covid-19: How India can ensure that women in the informal sector get the protection they deserve (Shalini Sinha for WIEGO, May 2020)
- Webinar: Feminist Macroeconomics & COVID-19 which included the following slideshow (International Association for Feminist Economics, May 2020)
- Women's Major Group 2020 High Level Political Forum Position Paper: Accelerated action and transformative pathways: realizing the decade of action and delivery for sustainable development (Women's Major Group, May 2020)
- Creating Lasting Impact: The Power of Women-Led Localised Responses to COVID-19 (Anna Parke for ActionAid, May 2020)
- MACROSCOPE: Forging a Feminist Future in the COVID-19 Recovery (Eleanor Blomstrom for Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, May 2020)
- COVID-19 Pandemic: Statement by The Southern African People’s Solidarity Network (SAPSN, April 2020)
- Why fair taxation matters in wake of this pandemic (Caroline Othim & Roosje Saalbrink for Global Alliance for Tax Justice, Womankind Worldwide as Co-coordinators of the GATJ Tax and Gender Working Group, April 2020)
- Webinar: The Feminist Economics of COVID-19 (Sara Stevano, April 2020)
- Video: COVID-19 and the Global Economy (Jayati Ghosh, April 2020)
- Dignity not Destitution: An Economic Rescue Plan For All (Oxfam, April 2020)
- 5 reasons why the coronavirus crisis needs a feminist response (Oxfam, April 2020)
- Video: The feminist International in times of Corona (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, April 2020)
- Briefing: Covid-19 – Gender and other Equality Issues (Women’s Budget Group, March 2020)
- Building a Feminist Commons in the Time of COVID-19 (Miriam Ticktin for New School for Social Research)
- COVID-19, Informal Workers and WIEGO’s Work during this Crisis (WIEGO)
- Unity Statement (Gender and Trade Coalition)
- Exposing the Fault Lines (Madeleine Rees for WILPF)
- What has COVID-19 Taught Us about Neoliberalism? (Nela Porobić Isaković for WILPF)
- A debt jubilee to tackle the COVID-19 health and economic crisis (Jubilee Debt Campaign & others)
- From The Pandemic to 2030: Feminists Want System Change (Women’s Major Group)
Feminist Economic Recovery Plans
- Beyond COVID-19: A feminist plan for sustainability and social justice (Silke Staab, Constanza Tabbush, Laura Turquet & Loui Williams for UN Women, September 2021)
- Pandemic Policies: What Governments Did to Reach the Most Vulnerable Workers (Laura Alfers & Nicole Pryor for WIEGO, July 2021)
- Pathways to building back better: Advancing feminist policies in COVID-19 response and recovery(Jennifer Piscopo for UN Women, July 2021)
- Enabling a Permissive Multilateralisms Approach to Global Macroeconomic Governance to Support Feminist Plans for Sustainability and Social Justice (Ilene Grabl for UN Women, July 2021)
- A Feminist Agenda for People and Plant: Principles and Recommendations for a Global Feminist Economic Justice Agenda (Diyana Yahaya for Action Nexus for Generation Equality, June 2021)
- Three feminist economic tools to build back fairer after Covid-19 (Marzia Fontana, May 2021)
- Vaccine justice teach-in: How can feminist collectively organise to hold States accountable? (AWID, May 2021)
- COVID-19 and Informal Work: Distinct Pathways of Impact and Recovery in 11 Cities Around the World (Martha Alter Chen, Erofili Grapsa, Ghida Ismail, Mike Rogan, Marcela Valdivia, Laura Alfers, Jenna Harvey, Ana Carolina Ogando, Sarah Orleans Reed & Sally Roever for WIEGO, May 2021)
- Gender equality, sustainability and social justice: A roadmap for recovery (Laura Turquet for UN Women, May 2021)
- Why We Need Gender-Responsive Central Banking (Anita Bhatia for UN Women, April 2021)
- Bailout Manifesto: From a Feminist Bailout to a Global Feminist Economic Recovery (Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID), April 2021)
- A Cursory Glance at Hawaii’s Economic Revival Policy: The Intersection of Feminist Economics and Good Governance (Isha Prakash & Tamanna Meghrajani, March 2021)
- COVID-19 crisis: How the pandemic is deepening gender inequalities (Eurodad, March 2021)
- COVID-19 crisis: Key ingredients for a feminist recovery (Eurodad, March 2021)
- Discussion Paper: The pandemic as a portal: policy transformations disputing the new normal (Masaya Llavaneras Blanco & María Graciela Cuervo for DAWN, February 2021)
- Feminist proposals for a just, equitable and sustainable post-COVID-19 economic recovery (The Gender and Development Network, NAWI Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective and FEMNET, February 2021)
- Brexit and Covid: Why a feminist recovery from both is vital for Britain (Dr. Toni Haastrup, January 2021)
- Opinion: Thinking about the pandemic from a feminist economy (Magalí Brosio, December 2020)
- Responses to the COVID-19 crisis in Ireland: From feminized to feminist (Pauline Cullen & Mary P. Murphy, December 2020)
- COVID-19: EveryWoman’s Feminist Response and Recovery Plan (Sylvia Estrada Claudio, October 2020)
- Building a feminist recovery for all: Gender transformative policies are more urgent than ever (Civil Society Policy Forum session sponsored by ActionAid UK; ActionAid; Fight Inequality Alliance; International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific; BWP; Kvinna till Kvinna; Gender Action; Oxfam, October 2020)
- Gender responsive budgeting and the COVID-19 pandemic response: A feminist standpoint (Shilpa Viswanath & Lauren Bock Mullins, September 2020)
- Gendered Complications of COVID-19: Towards a Feminist Recovery Plan (Naomi Cahn & Linda C. McClain, September 2020)
- Debt Justice Webinar Series: Now is the time to act on debt from a feminist perspective (Eurodad, July 2020)
- Debt Justice Webinar Series: Building a road map to Sovereign Debt Justice after COVID-19 (Eurodad, July 2020)
- Debt Justice Webinar Series: Curing the Coronavirus Health & Economic Crisis in Developing Countries & Emerging Resilient as a Global Community: Injecting Special Drawing Rights & Zero Debt Solutions (Eurodad, July 2020)
- Debt Justice Webinar Series: How to deal with private creditors (Eurodad, July 2020)
- Debt Justice Webinar Series: Debt sustainability in the post COVID-19 era (Eurodad, July 2020)
- This Economic Labour Hurts the Arch of Our Backs: A Feminist Economic Recovery Plan for COVID-19 (Feminists Deliver, July 2020)
- COVID-19 Feminist Recovery Plan for Northern Ireland (Women’s Policy Group Northern Ireland, July 2020)
- After COVID: Feminist Policies Save Lives and Uphold Rights (Lina Abu Habib, June 2020)
- A Feminist Economic Recovery Plan for Wales: Building Back Better from COVID-19 (Chwarae Teg, June 2020)
- Contribution to webinar: Feminist realities - Transforming democracy in times of crisis (Awino Okech for Transnational Institute & AWID, May 2020)
- Feminism, the Pandemic, and What Comes Next: Building on practices from the Argentinian feminist movement (Luci Cavallero & Verónica Gago, April 2020)
- Building Bridges, Not Walking on Backs: A Feminist Economic Recovery Plan for COVID-19 (Khara Jabola-Carolus for the Hawai'i State Commission on the Status of Women, April 2020)
- Statement: A feminist perspective on the global response to COVID-19 (Kvinna till Kvinna, April 2020)
- COVID-19 Highlights the Failure of Neoliberal Capitalism: We Need Feminist Global Solidarity (APWLD, March 2020)
- Hawaii and Canada: Lessons for feminist economic recovery from COVID-19 (Alexandra Solomon, Kate Hawkins & Rosemary Morgan for the Gender & COVID-19 Working Group, 2020)
- A Feminist Recovery Plan for Canada (Anjum Sultana & Carmina Ravanera for YWCA Canada)
- Elevating Gender Equality in COVID-19 Economic Recovery: An evidence synthesis and call for policy action (FP Analytics)
Calls to Action
- Call to the African Union, African Heads of State, International Financial Institutions, Chinese Lending Bodies and Private Creditors for a total and unconditional cancellation of African debt! (WoMin and CADTM, August 2021)
- Make taxes work for women now! (APMDD, January 2021)
- Creating a caring economy: a call to action (Commission on a Gender-Equal Economy, Women’s Budget Group, September 2020)
- Statement: Solidarity and System Change – The Antidotes to COVID-19 (APWLD, May 2020)
- Call for a Feminist COVID-19 Policy (Feminist Alliance for Rights, May 2020)
- ESCR-Net Global Call to Action in response to the COVID-19 (ESCR-Net, May 2020)
- Call to Action: Now and the Future COVID-19 and Gender Equality (GAPS, April 2020)
- Tax & Fiscal Justice: Our Revenues for Our Rights! An Open Letter to Policy-Makers in Light of the Covid19 Health Crisis (APMDD, March 2020)
- Call to Action for G7 Stakeholders: Leaders recommend key gender equality actions for COVID-19 response and recovery (WE EMPOWER G7)
Care Economy
- Injuring the Care Economy with Private Finance (Marina Durano, September 2022)
- Racism, rights and community engagement: Care, carers, caring in pandemic times (Shirin M Rai, Shahnaz Akhter and Jayanthi Lingham, June 2022)
- More chores for women further tilts the gender gap (Amal Chowdhury, May 2022)
- COVID-19 and a “crisis of care”: A feminist analysis of public policy responses to paid and unpaid care and domestic work (Elena Camilletti, Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed, February 2022)
- Will the pandemic end gender inequality for parents? (Dr Jasmine Kelland, Peter Baker, Dr Myra Betron, Dr Deepshikha Chhetri, Dr Brendan Churchill, Prof Derek Griffith, Dr Sushmita Mukherjee & Dr Dominic Shattuck, October 2021)
- The Future of Care Work Post-COVID-19 (Aditi Ratho for Observer Research Foundation, September 2021)
- Impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and unpaid care work on informal workers’ livelihoods (Ana Carolina Ogando, Michael Rogan & Rachel Moussié for WIEGO, September 2021)
- Women’s wellbeing and the burden of unpaid work (Soraya Seedat & Marta Rondon, August 2021)
- Webinar: Gender and Economic Agency: The South Asia Story (Observer Research Foundation, August 2021)
- Care after COVID-19: Time for a U-turn? (Juliana Franzoni & Veena Siddharth for UN Women, July 2021)
- Gender and Social Institutions in the Labour Markets: An Analytical Perspective on the Covid-19 Disruptions in Northeast India (Padmeswar Doley & Sarbeswar Pradhan, July 2021)
- Family-Friendly Policies for Workers in the Informal Economy: Protecting and ensuring social protection and care systems for all children and families in the context of COVID-19 and beyond (Rachel Moussié; Ruth Graham Goulder; Shreyasi Jha; Christopher Kip; Grainne Moloney; Leigh Pasqual; Chemba Raghavan; Sarah Rossmann; Erica Wong; Laura Addati; Christina Behrendt; Umberto Cattaneo; Ian Orton & Emanuela Pozzan for WIEGO; UNICEF & ILO, July 2021)
- Practices of Care in Times of COVID-19 (Marlene Gómez Becerra & Eunice Muneri-Wangar, June 2021)
- Caring Economics, Cooperation, and the COVID-19 Pandemic (Silvia Hedenigg, May 2021)
- How can the COVID-19 crisis be harnessed to improve the rights and working conditions of paid care workers? (Mignon Duffy for UN Women, May 2021)
- Webinar: Beijing+25 and the future of care (Public Services International, April 2021)
- Care and Climate: Understanding the Policy Interventions - A Feminist Green New Deal Coalition Brief (Lenore Palladino & Rhiana Gunn-Wright for FemGND, April 2021)
- Social reproduction and a just post-COVID world (Dr Sara Stevano; Dr Alessandra Mezzadri; Lorena Lombardozzi & Hanah Bargawi, March 2021)
- A Care-Led Recovery From Covid-19: Investing in High-Quality Care to Stimulate And Rebalance The Economy (Jérôme De Henau & Susan Himmelweit, March 2021)
- Webinar: “COVID19 and the care economy. What do we see, what do we call for?” (WIDE+, February 2021)
- Report of WIDE+ webinar: “COVID19 and the care economy. What do we see, what do we call for?”, on neo-liberalism vs care relationships (WIDE+, February 2021)
- The future of work: The Lockdown Showed How the Economy Exploits Women. She Already Knew. Silvia Federici has been warning for decades of what happens when we undervalue domestic labor (Jordan Kisner, February 2021)
- COVID-19 exacerbates women’s time poverty (Nikhila Menon, January 2021)
- Invisible no more: Inequities faced by women healthcare workers, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, and recommendations for action (Dr Julia Smith & Dr Rosemary Morgan for BC Women's Health Foundation, 2021)
- Women in a COVID-19 recession: Employment, job loss and wage inequality in Canada (Lokpriy Shrma & Johnson Shoyama, 2021)
- Unequal and Invisible: A Feminist Political Economy Approach to Valuing Women’s Care Labor in the COVID-19 Response (Michelle Lokot & Amiya Bhatia, November 2020)
- Working and caring at home: Gender difference in the effects of Covid-19 on paid and unpaid labor in Australia (Lyn Craig & Brendan Churchill, November 2020)
- Whose time to care: Unpaid care and domestic work during COVID-19 (UN Women, November 2020)
- Feminist frontlines: responses to COVID-19 and the care crisis (Friends of the Earth, November 2020)
- Invest in care now! Fore recovery and resilience (International Trade Union Confederation, October 2020)
- Global Day of Action for Care: Unions and civil society mobilising to demand investments in care for building more inclusive, accessible, resilient, and caring economies (Joint Statement by ITUC; UNI Global Union; Public Services International; Education International; International Domestic Workers Federation and Women in Informal Employment, October 2020)
- Economic disturbances in the COVID-19 crisis and their gendered impact on unpaid activities in Germany and Italy (Nevena Kulic; Giulia M. Dotti Sani; Susanne Strauss & Luna Bellani, October 2020)
- The care economy and the state in Africa’s Covid-19 responses (Lyn Ossome, October 2020)
- Discussion paper: Feminist Futures: Caring for people, caring for justice and rights (Clare Coffey, Sebastián Moreno, Maria José Ruiza & Kim Piaget for Oxfam, September 2020)
- Care in Latin America and the Caribbean during the COVID-19: Towards comprehensive systems to strengthen response and recovery (UN Women & ECLAC, August 2020)
- The gendered division of unpaid labor during the Covid-19 crisis: did anything change? Evidence from Italy (Cinzia Meraviglia & Aurore Dudka, July 2020)
- Care in the time of Coronavirus (Mara Bolis, Anam Parvez Butt, Emma Holten, Leah Mugehera, Nabil Abdo & Maria Jose Moreno for Oxfam, June 2020)
- The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the care burden of women and families (Kate Power, June 2020)
- Community care during pandemic times... and beyond (Compiled by Norma Sanchís, June 2020)
- Domestic Workers and COVID-19 in Brazil: Staging resistance, presenting scenarios and challenges (Maria Izabel Monteiro Lourenço & Mary Garcia Castro for Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, May 2020)
- Invest in the Care Economy for a Just, Green, Feminist Covid-19 Response and Recovery (APMDD, May 2020)
- Policy Brief: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Domestic Workers and Policy Responses (Roula Seghaier for International Domestic Workers Federation, May 2020)
- Collaborative Feminist Degrowth: Pandemic as an Opening for a Care-Full Radical Transformation (Feminisms and Degrowth Alliance, May 2020)
- A feminist perspective on COVID-19 and the value of care work globally (Kate Bahn, Jennifer Cohen & Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, May 2020)
- Global feminist responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: Social justice and care are at the forefront (Lina Abou Habib, April 2020)
- #PowerShifts Resources: Care in a Time of Corona (Maria Faciolince for Oxfam, April 2020)
- Within and beyond the pandemic: Demanding a Care Income and a feminist Green New Deal for Europe (Stefania Barca, April 2020)
- Care for those who Care for you (International Domestic Workers Federation, April 2020)
- The COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating the care crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC, April 2020)
- A crisis like no other: social reproduction and the regeneration of capitalist life during the COVID-19 pandemic (Alessandra Mezzadri, April 2020)
- Who cares? Feminist responses to the pandemic (Vibhuti Patel & Lea Goelnitz for Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, April 2020)
- Report Summary: Who Cares for the Future: finance gender responsive public services! (Soren Ambrose & David Archer for ActionAid, April 2020)
- The impact of COVID-19 on gender equality (Titan Alon, Matthias Doepke, Jane Olmstead-Rumsey & Michèle Tertilt for National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2020)
- Open letter to governments - a Care Income Now! (Global Women’s Strike, March 2020)
- The gender impact of Coronavirus: How to move to an economy that cares for people and the planet (Thera van Osch, March 2020)
- Community care during pandemic times... and beyond (Norma Sanchís for Asociación Lola Mora, 2020)
- Report: Strong and United Facing up to the Pandemic - The Impact of COVID-19 on Domestic Workers in Latin America (María Elena Valenzuela & Adriana Paz Ramírez for International Domestic Workers Federation)
- Care and Connection in Crisis: Feminist Strategy to Confront COVID-19 (MADRE)
- “We’re just treated so differently”: Experiences of women working in long-term care facilities in British Columbia, Canada during COVID-19 (Gender & COVID-19)
- Whose Time To Care? Unpaid Care And Domestic Work During Covid-19 (UN Women)
- Creating a Care Economy: A Call to Action (Women's Budget Group)
Climate Justice
- Building Narratives for a Caring Green Economy (Amanda Novello for Feminist Green New Deal Coalition, September 2021)
- Climate justice: priorities for equitable recovery from the pandemic (Sennan D. Mattara; Tahseen Jafry; Patrick Schröder & Zarina Ahmad, September 2021)
- Fossil fuels, climate change, and the COVID-19 crisis: pathways for a just and green post-pandemic recovery (Philippe Le Billona; Païvi Lujala; Devyani Singh; Vance Culbert & Berit Kristoffersen, August 2021)
- A feminist and decolonial global green new deal: principles, paradigms and systemic transformations (Bhumika Muchhala for Feminist Economic Justice for People & Planet Action Nexus, May 2021)
- COVID-19: Making our Recovery Green and Feminist (Nela Porobić Isaković for WILPF, December 2020)
- Debt and climate: entangled emergencies derailing women’s rights and gender justice (Iolanda Fresnillo Sollan for Eurodad, December 2020)
- Feminist Economics and Environmentalism for a Just Recovery: Outlooks from the South (Friends of the Earth International; World March of Women; and Latin American on Women Transforming the Economy, November 2020)
- Feminist Finance: A Brief for the Finance in Common Summit (FiC) (WEDO; WECF; Heinrich Böll Stiftung Washington D.C.; and Equidad de Genero: Ciudadania, Trabajo y Familia, November 2020)
- Investing in a Feminist Green COVID-19 Recovery (Oxfam, October 2020)
- Confronting Carbon Inequality: Putting climate justice at the heart of the COVID-19 recovery (Tim Gore for Oxfam, September 2020)
- Women Are More at Risk Due to the Pandemic and Climate Crisis. These Feminists Are Working to Change That (Mamata Dash, August 2020)
- Climate, Covid and Care: Feminist Journeys (Lucy Cadena & Mamata Dash for Oxfam, August 2020)
- Collard & Dempsey: Patriarchy is an Ecological Regime: Any Green New Deal must be international and intersectional (Rosemary Collard & Jessica Dempsey for Progressive International, June 2020)
- GAGGA voices on COVID-19: Alternative economies (GAGGA, May 2020)
- Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change? (Cameron Hepburn, Brian O’Callaghan, Nicholas Stern, Joseph Stiglitz & Dimitri Zenghelis, May 2020)
- COVID-19: The time has come for the Green New Deal for Europe (GNDE)
- WECAN’s Feminist Response to COVID-19: A Summary (Women's Earth and Climate Action Network)
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