Feminist Economic Transformation

COVID-19 exposed and exacerbated the extreme inequalities in our societies. Globally, the pandemic has had disproportionate economic, health, and social impacts on women particularly those who belong to Black, Indigenous or racialized communities, (im)migrant and refugees, women living with disabilities or members of the LGBTQ2+ communities. Women workers are bearing the brunt of job losses and facing increased care responsibilities. Building a better future cannot simply be an exercise of rebuilding what was already there. Rather, now is the time to envision a transformative and new economic model that centres the health and wellbeing of our societies, economies and our planet.

The purpose of the FET project is to re-imagine our world through feminist economic transformations, fostering connections, inspiring movement actors in their change work, and to support collective visioning and uplifting of economic alternatives that can be transformed into policy changes.

This project is guided by an Advisory Group comprised of feminist organizers, advocates, economists, researchers, and thinkers around the world working together to envision a feminist transformed economy. Since 2020, the FET project led a series of visioning exercises with feminist activists in various regions focusing on macro and micro economic realities that would be required for an equitable, feminist future.

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