UNICRI, Turin, 2014
The current global financial crisis has heavily affected economies and markets around the world, but the burden of the crisis has clearly produced different impacts on men and women’s lives. Due to their specific characteristics in economic performance and political, social and cultural contexts, countries have handled the crisis and attended to the relevant gender dimensions in different ways. The approach to gender through an economic lense is relatively new, while studies exploring the impact of the economic downturn and macroeconomic policies across gender are small in number, although extremely important.