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- The Gendered Crisis: Livelihoods and Well-Being in India During COVID-19 – Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon & Sanchari Roy
- In India, men suffered larger employment losses than women during the pandemic.
- Women reported greater mental stress than men, although both reported high stress.
- Men’s employment losses affected their wives’ mental health more than their own.
- Having many peers is correlated with worse stress for women, but not men.
- Critical Feminist Engagements with Green New Deals – Carol Cohn & Claire Duncanso
- Intersecting global crises impel the question, “what should the goal of economic life be?”
- Many climate “solutions” embed the same faulty ways of thinking that caused the crisis.
- Clean energy for the Global North spells toxic tolls for the Global South.
- GNDs neglect militarism, despite its key role in driving the climate crisis.
- GNDs remain rooted in a mindset that separates humanity from nature and will thus fail.
- The Crooked Codes of the Luxury Handbag: Narratives of Empowered Feminine Consumption in Africa – Mehita Iqani
- The luxury handbag is viewed as a symbol of African women’s economic success.
- This understanding obscures the realities of access to economic equality for most women living in African contexts.
- Luxury consumption privileges wealth and does not offer alternatives for women’s economic empowerment.
- As evidence of women’s achievement, the luxury handbag reveals the limits of neoliberal views for women’s empowerment.
- Domestic Burdens Amid Covid-19 and Women’s Mental Health in Middle-Income Africa – Valerie Mueller, Karen Grépin, Atonu Rabbani, Anne Ngunjiri, Amy
- Women in Kenya and Nigeria reported increases in domestic labor amid the pandemic.
- Women’s agency is negatively associated with the domestic burden and a reduction in paid activities in Kenya.
- Women in households with two or more children face greater domestic burdens and losses in paid activities in Nigeria.
- Increases in domestic work render women more likely to be anxious (Kenya and Nigeria) and depressed (Nigeria).
- Gender-Based Policies and the Role of Patriarchal Norms: Evidence from Northern India – Pareena Gupta Lawrence & Catherine Hensly
- In India, gender quotas aim to promote equity in political representation and offset patriarchy.
- Yet, longstanding patriarchal norms and cultural expectations of how women behave in the public sphere subvert policy reforms.
- In Indian states with greater degrees of patriarchy, women had little awareness of their legal protections.
- Gender quotas are more effective when combined with efforts to address the attitudes and systems perpetuating inequality.