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[updatedx3] Round-up: Recession, job loss & their economic impact on women


Everyone should be aware of how the recession and economic strife are impacting women (and frequently, therefore, children and families) disproportionately.  Here’s a list of articles that provide numerous perspectives on the issues:

1. From Women’s eNews today:Women are almost twice as likely as men to hold subprime mortgages. That means the ability of many to hang on to their homes could be tied up with Senate action–expected this month–on a bill to reduce mortgage payments.

2. Feminist Peace Network wrote a nine ten-part series on the economic impact on women, here and around the globe.  Many of the posts offer links to more information. These entries have been published between October 2008 and March 12, 2009:

The Girls’ Guide To The Economy

The Girls’ Guide To The Economy–Part 2

The Girls’ Guide To The Economy Part 3–Time For A Bakesale

The Girls’ Guide To The Economy Part 4–Marie Antoinette and the Katrina Analogy

The Girls’ Guide To The Economy Part 5–The Shopping Edition

The Girls’ Guide To The Economy Part 6

The Girls’ Guide To The Economy Part 7–Health Is Not A Luxury Item

The Girls’ Guide To The Economy Part 8–There are NO Women On The Stimulus Conference Committee

The Girls’ Guide To The Economy Part 9–The Impact Of The Economic Downturn On Women’s Lives

The Girls’ Guide To The Economy Part 10-When It Comes To Cutbacks In The Financial World, You’ll Never Guess Which Is The First Gender To Go

3. The Women’s Media Center asks us to think about women, poverty and the burden on President Obama in As Global Recession Drives More Women into Poverty, a Challenge to Obama.

4. Nancy Goldstein, writing for Salon.com’s Broadsheet section in February, discusses how The Economy is a Feminist Issue.

5. Also in February, Ruth Rosen asked, What kind of stimulus do American women want on Talking Points Memo’s TPM Cafe.

6.  The New York Times blog, Economix, posted a entry about how early childhood education is the “ultimate growth industry” to be considered when considering the stimulus.

7. PunditMom aka Joanne Bamberger submitted a project that would involve interviewing women who live in different places all over the U.S. and chronicling their stories of how they’re kicking “the economic crisis in the butt.”  You can vote for her project through April 3, 2009.

Those should get you started but good.

Update: I’m going to add posts as I become aware of them.

Recessionwire – this blog is great but in particular, check out the column noted by Tristin Aaron in a comment below, Love in the Time of Layoffs, by Deborah Siegel of Girl with Pen (another great blog).

Ohio State University’s Institute on Women’s blog posted, “Women and the Economy – Various Viewpoints” and links to reports on how women in the insurance and financial sectors are being hit (hattip to Julie Graber, director of the Institute).

And, how I missed this-I have no excuse, but Jen Nedeau at Change.org’s Women’s Right site, had a great round-up on March 16, in A Few Thoughts on Women & the Economy (including links I have not provided).  Thanks, Jen.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:53 am March 23rd, 2009 in Barack Obama, Blogging, Economy, Gender, Government, Media, Politics, Sexism, Whitehouse09, Women, Writing, activism, leadership 

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4 Responses to “[updatedx3] Round-up: Recession, job loss & their economic impact on women”

  1. 1 Louise Lewis, author on March 23rd, 2009 11:51 am

    Job loss…Been there. Done that. Yep, still ‘there’.

    Losing a job is one of those defining moments in life. We can choose to lose our
    way (our mind), or we can rise to the challenge and follow what our Spirit tells
    us to do.

    Remember: We are more than a statistic on the news.

    I’ll share with you what I was told the day I got “set free” (laid off) from my job: “This is a new chapter in your life. WRITE ONE HELL OF A CHAPTER!” And I did just that! Will you?

    Need a break from the doom and gloom? Ready to begin your journey today? Then let me send you a FREE (no strings) book download. Sign up at: http://www.noexpertsneeded dot com

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    take care,
    Louise Lewis, author
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  2. 2 Tristin Aaron on March 23rd, 2009 1:52 pm

    This is great, Jill! I have one to add: Deborah Siegel, of Girl With Pen fame, and author of Sisterhood, Interrupted, does a column at RecessionWire called “Love in the Time of Layoffs” : http://www.recessionwire.com/author/deborahsiegel/
    Best,
    Tristin Aaron
    WMC

  3. 3 Julie Graber on March 23rd, 2009 2:52 pm

    Jill –

    Jen Nedeau has written a summary piece for Change.org as well –
    http://womensrights.change.org/

    I referenced it in an entry on the Institute on Women’s blog; the Institute’s entry also includes a link to an article about the job losses for women in the insurance and financial sectors.
    http://instituteonwomen.blogspot.com/

    Julie Graber
    Institute on Women, Gender,
    and Public Policy at Ohio State

  4. 4 Sarah J on April 3rd, 2009 4:15 pm

    If I can be bold enough to drop a link–I have a piece up at Feministe about women and the Employee Free Choice Act.

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