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Identify the role and place of Gender in the global economy. (200 words)

  • UPSC 2013
  • 15 marks
  • Contemporary Global Concerns

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The global economy, organised through states and transnational corporations, presents itself as gender-neutral, yet it runs on a gendered division of labour. Feminist political economy, from Marilyn Waring's If Women Counted (1988) to V. Spike Peterson's linked reproductive, productive and virtual economies, shows that women's role is indispensable while their place is at the margins…

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  • Role: what women's work does for the global economy
  • Place: where women stand in it
  • India
  • Conclusion
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