Event overview
The oppression of women within capitalism: what can we learn from the domestic labour debate?
Still in the 21st century, women carry more work on their shoulders than men: the dual day (with the difficulty of balancing paid work outside the home and unpaid work at home), the absence or low presence of husbands, the difficulty of making ends meet if a single mother, etc. Thus, today, women suffer double discrimination related, on the one hand, to capitalist exploitation if and when they enter the labor market and, on the other hand, to the role of wife and mother that society still expects of them. The specificity of women is, thus, related to domestic and care work which, even today, is carried out, for the most part, by women. Revisiting the domestic labor debate of the 1970s is a good starting point to begin again to think about the oppression of women in capitalism.
Dr. Giovanna Vertova (bio)
Dr Giovanna Vertova is an Assistant Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Economics at the University of Bergamo (Italy). Among her research interests, she has focused her attention on the spatial dimension of the economy, with a special attention to globalisation debates; the economics of innovation, with a particular focus on the national systems of innovation; feminist and gender economics, especially related to the labour market.
[Cover Image: Capitalism also Depends on Domestic Labour (c) 2024 Oakland Museum of California.]
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 15 May 2024 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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