Liberating women worker's economics

There is occurring major increases in women in the economic labour force. Across the North and South women are increasingly working outside of the home, admittedly first at the lowest paid jobs.

1. Mainstream economic perspectives, ranging from conservative liberal (neoclassical) to social liberal/social democratic approaches, to Marxian analyses are all inclined to make use of paradigms which privilege the market place and therefore produce bias against women. However, commentaries upon these frameworks, whether they arise out of discussion of women's waged work or women's domestic labour, typically just note women's exclusion from or marginality within economic categories, concepts and methods. An alternative perspective is almost never expounded, even by feminists. Even less likely to be recognized is the emotional and sexual labour provided by women. It is likely therefore that very narrowly constructed conceptions of economic citizenship are replacing rather than complementing the broader conceptions of social and political citizenship which the suffragists won for women a century ago.

1. Validating women's work
2. Providing sufficient economic rights
3. Promoting women's economic self-reliance
4. Promoting more equitable distribution of wealth and income
5. Liberating
6. Aiding economically disadvantaged people

1. Valuing housework in national accounts
2. Improving womens's incomes

1. Strengthening participation of women in sustainable development programmes

1. Supporting participation of women in work force
2. Researching role of women in development management
3. Providing affordable loans to women
4. Integrating value of women's unpaid work in resource accounting systems
5. Freeing up assumptions of neoclassical economics
6. Advocating flexibilization of labour

1. Unprotected female migrant workers
2. Unequal pay for women
3. Exploitation of casual workers
4. Disadvantages of homeworking employees