I was talking to my mother the other day about the Marie Antoinette theory of leadership wherein world leaders sit around drinking $500 wine while the economy goes to hell in a handbasket and wise woman that she is, she suggested that maybe what we need to do is to hold a bake sale.
After all, […]
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From the World March Of Women:
Another World Is Necessary And Possible
“In a context of patriarchy and neo-liberal economics, the banking and finance system is in collapse. Attempts at recovery to improve its functioning only worsen the situation. The stock markets of the world are in free-fall; the crisis is growing and cannot be hidden. […]
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As the U.S. grapples with its ongoing economic crisis, President-Elect Obama posed for a picture with his economic advisors. 4 out of 17 of them were women, their credentials were far more Wall Street than Main Street. And as we pointed out last week, only a handful of women were included on an AP list […]
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As a friend of mine bemoaned yesterday, oh why couldn’t the honeymoon have lasted longer? But with the likes of Larry Summers being considered for Secretary of the Treasury, it is quite clear that we need to move immediately towards creating a framework where respect for women’s lives is part of the “Change” that is […]
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Yesterday my local newspaper had a blurb in the Health section saying that women were more stressed out about the economy than men. Just gave the stats, no analysis, but it’s a fair bet that men are more likely to be worried about their retirement benefits while women who are paid less in the first […]
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As we noted last week, while women and children surely bear the brunt of corporate centric economics, their voices, to the detriment of us all, are routinely excluded from policy level discussions about economics. There is nothing new about this. In a recent piece in The Nation, Katrina vanden Heuvel writes,
“(M)ore than a […]
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Meltdown Strategies: Financial Disaster and Climate Change
By Starhawk
“While the financial markets have been melting down around us, another sort of meltdown has been occurring, one even more frightening and dangerous. Climate change has been progressing, more quickly than anticipated, fueled even more rapidly by methane bubbles released from a warming Arctic sea, in just one […]
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In the midst of of watching the disasterous free fall resulting from the treacherously naive bailout of the perpetrators of economic disaster, this statement from the Accra (Ghana) International Women’s Forum offers a clear vision of a sustainable economic roadmap:
Recommendations for Action on Development Effectiveness in Accra and Beyond
On the 30th August 2008, more than […]
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