Eyes on Gender: Regional Perspectives on the Impact of the Financial Crisis

Social Watch and the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) will bring together gender equality/women’s rights advocates from Latin America, Africa and Europe to speak to, investigate, and analyze the impact of the systemic crisis on women.  The activists will share regional perspectives on the crisis – underscoring, amongst other points, the channels of transmission and key areas of impact and offering a cross-regional analysis.  Social Watch’s Gender Equity Index (GEI) will also be made available.  The 2009 GEI ranks 157 countries by measuring women's relative economic activity, education and empowerment, and evaluates their progress or regression in achieving gender equity over the period of 2005-2009.  Following the presentations, open dialogue will take place on the issues raised as well as on potential feminist responses to the crisis.