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We are in the midst of multiple crises that have brought to light a corrupted value system in which production and social reproduction are put at the service of the financial markets.
Feminist movements for quite some time have been exposing the contradictions of the system, but their critiques have remained largely unheard by the mainstream – and even by some heterodox economists – which is unwilling to discuss the social norms and fundamental asymmetries that structure the global economic system.
Today, still, reproductive care work, which is mostly carried out by women, is invisible in the mainstream view of economics. As a consequence of the financial crisis, this burden of care work on women’s shoulders is even growing. The recognition of the centrality of »care« towards the functioning of the economy and society is at the core of a feminist alternative that aims at ending the »crisis of carelessness« by putting gender justice, sustainability and social needs above those of the financial markets.

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Há mais de uma década que refletimos sobre a autonomia econômica das mulheres e já comprovamos que ela não está determinada somente pela inserção das mulheres nos processos microeconômicos, mas sobre tudo pelos impactos das políticas macroeconômicas sobre sua inserção na sociedade. Neste sentido, sabemos que essa autonomia econômica depende da contribuição das mulheres a criação de riquezas a partir de sua inserção no mercado de trabalho através do chamado trabalho produtivo, ainda que ao mesmo tempo, do invisível trabalho reprodutivo realizado no âmbito domestico.

Hace más de una década que reflexionamos sobre la autonomía económica de las mujeres y ya comprobamos que ella no está determinada solamente por la participación de las mujeres en los procesos microeconómicos, pero sobre todo por los impactos de las políticas macroeconómicas sobre su inserción en la sociedad. En este sentido, sabemos que esa autonomía económica depende de la contribución de las mujeres a la creación de riquezas a partir de su inserción en el mercado de trabajo a través del llamado trabajo productivo, aunque al mismo tiempo, del invisible trabajo reproductivo realizado en el ámbito doméstico.

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The financial and related – social, care, environmental, food – crises unveiled the crisis of neoliberal globalization. It is pretty much as the tale3 about a king who uses a suit that is “invisible for those that are stupid”. The king cannot see it nor can his ministers, but they all pretend to do so fearing to look stupid themselves; until a child screams from the crowd: “the king is naked!”. The financial crisis has made it hard to continuing denying what was obvious for social movements all along.

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O objetivo da análise a seguir é apresentar um breve panorama do que o uso da categoria de gênero traz em termos da avaliação das múltiplas causas e dos múltiplos impactos da crise econômica global.

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