Towards a gender just transition: Principles and perspectives from the global South
| When: | Friday, 30 August 2024 - Friday, 30 August 2024 |
| Where: | Online Event |
| Start time: | 12:00 |
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| Cost: | Free but registration is required |
SCIS invites you to the launch of a Working Paper titled Towards a gender just transition: Principles and perspectives from the global South on Aug 30th
The Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS)' Climate and Inequality Project invites you to the launch of its Working Paper titled Towards a gender just transition: Principles and perspectives from the global South. The webinar will take place on 30 August 2024, 12:00 -14:00 (SAST).
The Climate and Inequality team's Professor Imraan Valodia, who is SCIS Director and Wits University Pro VC for Climate, Sustainability, and Inequality, and researcher, Julia Taylor, will take us through the findings of the working paper during a conversation with the Presidential Climate Commission's Lebogang Mulaisi and Economics Emeritus Professor Maria S. Floro from the American University in Washington DC, and Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution.
Abstract:
This paper argues that ensuring a transition that delivers gender justice is both critical and urgent. Without explicit attention to, and clear prioritisation of gender justice across transition policies, climate change ‘solutions’ risk replicating or reinforcing structural gender inequalities. Examples of such risk include women’s continued limited access to economic opportunities, employment and social protection; their over-representation in precarious work; and women’s primary responsibility for social reproduction and care.
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