Critically examine the structural and institutional placement of gender within the global political economy, focusing on the gendered division of labour, the feminization of precarious work, differential access to capital and resources, and the normative invisibility of women’s economic contributions within neoliberal and globalized economic systems.

Gender and the Global Political Economy: Structural Inequities and Institutional Invisibility The global political economy is neither gender-neutral nor universally inclusive. Rather, it is a hierarchical, historically contingent system that embeds gendered relations into its structures, institutions, and logics of accumulation. Feminist scholars have long argued that mainstream economic paradigms marginalize or invisibilize women's economic … Continue reading Critically examine the structural and institutional placement of gender within the global political economy, focusing on the gendered division of labour, the feminization of precarious work, differential access to capital and resources, and the normative invisibility of women’s economic contributions within neoliberal and globalized economic systems.