The personal is (still not) political - What does the fashionable word ‘care economy’ actually mean? The concept of the care economy refers to paid and unpaid work directly related to the everyday care of other people but also to the work involved in care provision. By Gisela Notz
‘Paid or unpaid’ – a challenge for care policy New concepts such as that of the ‘care economy’ attempt to highlight this fact by pointing to the overlap between care and efficiency, use, process maximisation and productivity. By Hannelore Buls
The feminine twin in economics When we speak about economics or read about the subject in the newspapers, generally the focus is on the market, prices or competition. Yet the modern economy is far more than that. It has been a twin birth since the outset: the birth of non-identical, bisexual twins. By Adelheid Biesecker
Solidarity networks: between self-determination and the new obligations of an aid society Thomas Birk on the topics new forms of community, diverse ways of life and how politics and the public should deal with. By Thomas Birk
Gender and Climate Finance: Double Mainstreaming for Sustainable Development Climate change is not gender-neutral. Suffering from gender-based vulnerabilities to climate change, women are more often victims of climate change than men; however, women also possess knowledge of and experiences in capacities to mitigate as well as strategies to cope and adapt, which makes them important “agents of change” in the fight against global warming. By Liane Schalatek
Knowledge Networking and Capacity Building Program on Engendering Macroeconomics and International Economics We are pleased to announce the first European regional program on knowledge networking and capacity building on gender, macroeconomics and international economics. Economists from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan are welcome to apply. The summer school will take place in Istanbul on 9-17 October, 2011.
Statement of cross-constituency civil society coalition of the “Friends of Gender” for Gender Considerations in the Green Climate Fund This paper is a first introductory joint submission of several civil society groups from the environment (ENGO) and women and gender constituencies concerned with ensuring that gender considerations are adequately considered and mainstreamed in the work of the Transitional Committee and that gender equality is taken up as a cross-cutting issue and guiding principle for the new Green Climate Fund.
The Global Financial Meltdown And The Impact Of Financial Governance On Gender Which risks, tasks and opportuneties come up with the financial crisis in the context of gender (in-)equality? - With their Garnet Policy Brief Paper Brigitte Young and Helene Schuberth make a contribution to find answers in the discussion.