Description of Challenge
The current market centered economy devalues domestic and care work, which is
essential for life, but is not recognized by economic growth indicators such as GDP or
welfare. This work is traditionally assigned to women in the patriarchal division of roles.
“Focusing on life sustainability and displacing markets as its main worry could be said
to be one of its core agreements. In so doing, an unsolvable conflict between the
processes of capital accumulation and life sustainability is identified. The
socioeconomic system is pictured as an iceberg, where capitalist markets are based on
feminized and invisibilized jobs, agents and spheres” Amaia Pérez Orozco
Solution
A different way to look at the economy, in which the sustainability of life is at the center,
and we think what jobs are necessary for lives of both people and other living things.
An economy in which other welfare indicators exists that allows to decouple these from
economic growth, and considers necessary a social transformation in which there is a
redistribution of care tasks among all people and a consideration of the biophysical
limits of the planet.
REFERENCES:
http://www.feministeconomics.org/
http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Documents/CareEconomy.pdf
http://caringeconomy.org/
Carrasco ed. Con voz propia. http://www.laovejaroja.es/economiafeminista.htm
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