Intersecting Economies and Womens Work

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Intersecting Economies and Womens Work

• Luzon Regional Training on Gender Issues in
  Microfinance
• 12-15 November 2005
• Bayview Park Hotel, Manila
• Adapted from the Presentation by Jeanne Illo
  during the Mindanao Regional Training on Gender
  Issues in Microfinance, 11-13 May 2005, Davao City

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Figure 1. Embeddedness of Micro-Finance

Political system
Social systems
Culture
FINANCIAL SYSTEM
Micro-finance programs
Belief systems --Faith
Economy
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Micro-finance, and social and cultural notions
and practices

• Gender, privilege and entitlement
• Notion of place (private/public)
• Value and prestige
• Living with and living out inequality
• Community membership and social exclusion
• Gender relations
• Unequal and subordinate
• Different but equal

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Notions, assumptions, and practices

• Policies
• Procedures and processes
• Organizational arrangements
• Relationships with people

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Figure 2. Schema of Different Systems and
Economies
1. Private System (Profit-oriented
2. Public System (Infrastructure, public services)
LOCAL ECONOMY
Household
Community/Informal Economy (self-employment,
provisioning households and markets)
Social Economy (Formal Third System social goods)
3. Third System
GLOBAL ECONOMY
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Local economy, economic systems, and womens work

• Objective functions of different systems
• Multiple systems
• Gender-differentiated perceptions of interest and
  value
• Private system and profit making
• Public system
• Supply of public goods and public
  infrastructures
• Social economy, social goods, multiple bottom
  lines
• Care economy and provisioning household needs
• Support for womens unpaid work

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Locating Womens Work

• Care economy
• Informal economy and community economy (50-81
  percent of the Philippine employed work force),
  linking the informal economy to the formal
  economy
• Outsourcing or home-based work
• Growth of informal work
• Increasing overseas labor migration
• Women at the core of globalization
• Gender-based segmented labor markets (economic
  zones)
• Global competitiveness and new labor arrangements

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Figure 6. Locating women and men
workers
1. Private System (Profit-oriented
2. Public System (Infrastructure, public services)
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LOCAL ECONOMY
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Shadow economy (Informal Third System)
Social Economy (Formal Third System)
Household economy
3. Third System
LEGEND Female Male
GLOBAL ECONOMY
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Gender analysis of the contexts of micro-finance
Womens access and participation
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Gender Checklist 2 Gender Analysis of the
Effects of Micro-Finance
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Instructions for gender analysis of cases

• Divide the participants into five groups
• Each group should select a leader and a reporter
• Each group can allot 30 minutes for individual
  reading of the case, and a total of 60 minutes
  (30 minutes for each analysis matrix) for gender
  analysis of
• Constraints and opportunities presented by
  social/ cultural, economic, politics/peace
  situation, organization (policies and programs)
  on (a) womens access to MF funds and services
  and (b) womens participation and inputs in
  decision-making
• Effects of the intervention on women and on men
  and their gender relations