Bangladesh's recent decision to include women's unpaid domestic and care work in its GDP calculations marks a major symbolic victory for feminist economists, who have long argued that unpaid labour is essential to economic and social life. We discussed this with Nancy Folbre, Professor Emerita of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
What has changed for women’s work in Italy since the pandemic ended and deployment of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan begun? A look at limited progress amidst challenges and resilient stereotypes holding back an economic priority
What is the connection between gender roles, social norms, economic policies and inequalities? And why is it so important to analyse it to understand what is happening globally and to reduce disparities between men and women? We discussed this with Maurizio Bussolo, an economist who deals with gender gaps in South Asia at the World Bank
Transnational brokerage of domestic work and social inequalities, the case of Sri Lanka, from where, in the last forty years large numbers of women have been migrating as domestic workers to the oil-rich Arabian Gulf
"The attempts to recall Seattle City Councilor Kshama Sawant deserve further scrutiny beyond the reasons offered by her detractors" feminist and economist Stephanie Seguino says, in this short comment on how big investors have every interest in cultivating inequalities
Less than 20 years ago domestic workers began to demand rights and recognition. A new series shows that while they’ve made substantial progress, there is still a long way to go
If we want to understand the current particular conditions of Syrian refugees in Turkey and their plight, we need to look at it through the lens of the complex migratory history of the country
Passing the German reform of parental leave took almost ten years of work, but when it finally was lauched it had a significant positive effect on mother's employment rate. Yet legacies of a traditional family model in many of the public policies persist
The reactions to the discovery of Özgecan Aslan’s body, and President Erdogan's statements about gender-sensitive moral issues show how gender today is framed in Turkey. But what kind of gender trends has Turkey really witnessed in the last decade?
Spanish women face many risks as they are trapped in between a misleading media coverage and the lack of gender impact assessment of policies. The article proposes an analysis of the gendered impacts of the great recession on the Spanish labour market
Diana Strassmann discusses her work shifting economics from a discipline of neglect to one of care...
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Michelle Obama endorses Hillary Clinton in a speech at the democratic national convention
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For the first Women in Science Day GenPORT will release a series of video interviews with leading...
