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7Qs for Academics David Francis 26 April 2021 - SCIS Today we speak to David C. Francis, the Deputy Director at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies This is an ongoing series where we introduce some key researchers and academics getting to understand their work, their developing research interests as well as what keeps them engaged. Explain the nature of your work and/or how it relates to inequality. Why do you think inequality remains such an intractable social and economic problem? I think that despite much discourse against inequality, the current economic system is in the interests of many powerful and wealthy people and there is very little incentive for them to affect the kind of change that would reduce inequality. ....
Covid-19 crisis: How the pandemic is deepening gender inequalities 11 March 2021 In this first part of our blog series on Covid-19 from a feminist perspective, we look at how the pandemic is impacting women and girls and deepening gender divides. The social and humanitarian impacts of the economic crisis unleashed by the Covid-19 pandemic are devastating, especially for people in the global south. As the UN recognises, the outbreak of Covid-19 “is deepening pre-existing inequalities”, including gender inequalities. Across every sphere of society and the economy, the health and socio-economic impacts have been greater for women and girls, especially those facing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination – for example, on the basis of income, race and/or ethnicity. ....
A step back in gender equality Updated: Updated: January 12, 2021 11:06 IST Paying women for domestic and care work is a recognition of their efforts but may not reduce and redistribute their burden Share Article Photo for representational purposes only.
Paying women for domestic and care work is a recognition of their efforts but may not reduce and redistribute their burden Is the electoral promise of paying women for carrying out domestic work and care work a progressive public policy? The proposal, put forth by Kamal Haasan’s political party, Makkal Needhi Maiam, has generated curiosity and reopened the old but unsettled academic debate. On the face of it, the proposal might appear progressive. However, closer scrutiny suggests otherwise. ....