Gender Perspectives and Gender Impacts of the Global Economic Crisis

Rania Antonopoulos is Senior Scholar and Director of the Gender Equality and the Economy program area of the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, USA and co-director of the Global Network on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics (GEM-IWG).

1. Introduction Rania Antonopoulos 2. Financial Crises and their Gendered Employment Impact: Emerging trends and past experiences Jayati Ghosh 3. Investing in Care in the Midst of a Crisis: A strategy for effective and Equitable Job Creation Rania Antonopoulos, Hijong Kim, Tom Masterson and Ajit Zacharias 4. Addressing the Global Economic Crisis in Mexico, Ecuador and Argentina: Implications for Gender Equality Valeria Esquivel and Corina Rodríguez Enríquez 5. Trade Concentration in India and South Africa during the Global Crisis: Examining gender and skill biases in job loss David Kucera, Leanne Roncolato and Erik von Uexkull 6. Impacts of Financial Crisis and Post Crisis Policies on China: A gendered analysis Yan Liang and Sara Hsu 7. Has India Learned Any Lessons from the Global Crisis? The case of a less well-known but most globalized industry from a gender perspective Indira Hirway 8. The Economic Crisis of 2008 and the Added Worker Effect in Transition Countries Tamar Khitarishvili 9. Economic Crisis and the Added Worker Effect in the Turkish Labor Market Serkan Değirmenci and İpek İlkkaracan 10. Agricultural Innovation for Food Security and Environmental Sustainability: Why a gender perspective? Diana Alarcón and Christina Bodouroglou