Garnet Policy Brief, issue No. 10, January 2010, deals with "The Global Financial Meltdown and the Impact of Financial Governance on Gender". In this article the authors Brigitte Young and Helene Schuberth point out the risk that the financial crisis will reinforce existing gender inequalities.
But on the other hand Young and Schuberth see the financial crisis as a great opportunity by tackling this issue and the problem of income inequalities. They argue in this article that both inequalities have the same roots: They are both founded on a exclusive and exclusionary thinking, on norms based on the internal logic of self-referential epistemic communities. For this reason the authors see governments and buisiness leaders not only in duty to rescue the financial sector. They have a second one: Avoidance of future clamities. But this is only possible if they disvow old beliefs, embed finanical activities within the larger social sphere and benefit people in developed and developing countries.
But on the other hand Young and Schuberth see the financial crisis as a great opportunity by tackling this issue and the problem of income inequalities. They argue in this article that both inequalities have the same roots: They are both founded on a exclusive and exclusionary thinking, on norms based on the internal logic of self-referential epistemic communities. For this reason the authors see governments and buisiness leaders not only in duty to rescue the financial sector. They have a second one: Avoidance of future clamities. But this is only possible if they disvow old beliefs, embed finanical activities within the larger social sphere and benefit people in developed and developing countries.
Read the complete Garnet Policy Brief, issue No. 10, January 2010 as pdf (14 Pages, 1,62 MB).
