A feminist economics critique to the austericide route out of the crisis

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Lina Gálvez Muñoz
Universidad Pablo de Olavide
Spain
Paula Rodríguez-Modroño
Universidad Pablo de Olavide
Spain
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016), Special Issue, pages 8-33
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/arief.2016.1.1.1346
Submitted: Nov 5, 2015 Accepted: Sep 21, 2016 Published: Oct 21, 2016
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This paper applies a feminist analysis to the study of the impacts of the crisis and austerity policy on the work and living conditions of women and men, along with the extent to which gender and other related inequalities are being modified. The refamiliarization of care, resulting from welfare cuts and privatization, along with an increase in job uncertainty and precarity are limiting the wellbeing of women, and their present and future opportunities. All this might endanger the fragile advances achieved in terms of gender equality.

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gender, austerity, economic crisis, recession, inequality

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