UN Women Unveils Feminist Roadmap for Economic Recovery

New York: UN Women has published a feminist plan for economic recovery and transformation learning from the COVID-19 pandemic and previous crises: "Beyond COVID-19: A Feminist Plan for Sustainability and Social Justice."
 
As the world faces the choice between doubling down on the mistakes of the past or seizing the opportunity to do things differently, in the first United Nations (UN) plan of its kind, the new flagship report draws on the latest data, analysis and input from more than 100 global experts to provide a vision and concrete pathways for putting gender equality, environmental sustainability and social justice at the centre of global development efforts.
 
The report details how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated preexisting gender inequalities and laid bare weaknesses in the already fragile global care economy. Globally, in 2019 and 2020, women lost 54 million jobs, and even before the pandemic, they took on three times as much unpaid care work as men. Women are disproportionately impacted by environmental degradation while also being left out of decision-making around policy and financing to address climate change. By the end of 2021, men’s jobs will have recovered, but there will still be 13 million fewer women in employment.

This trio of interconnected crises of jobs, care and climate systematically undermine gender equality and threaten the survival of people and planet, but there is still an opportunity to change course.
 
"The need for a new social contract that delivers sustainability and social justice for all has never been clearer. We have a generational opportunity to break the vicious cycle of economic insecurity, environmental destruction and exclusionary politics and shape a better, more gender-equal and sustainable world. Today’s report provides a roadmap for how to do this, while recovering the ground that’s been lost on gender equality and women’s rights," said Pramila Patten, Executive Director, in a press release on Thursday.
 
To address these intersecting crises, UN Women is calling for better policy, action and investment, including investing in the care economy and social infrastructure, harnessing the potential of the transition to environmental sustainability, promoting women’s leadership across institutional spaces, and increasing funding for women’s organizations. 
 
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