Chris Williams
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Chris Williams is a longtime environmental activist and author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis (Haymarket Books, 2010). He is professor of physics and chemistry at Pace University and chair of the science department at Packer Collegiate Institute. Williams’ work has appeared in Z Magazine, International Socialist Review, and many others. He is currently working on his second book.
from “Capitalism, Ecology and the Official Invisibility of Women”
When it comes to the world economy, what you “see” is not usually what you get – especially when it comes to gender. Capitalism has fueled a world in which women are rendered invisible and saddled with the majority of labor. They are responsible for two-thirds of all working hours, produce 50 percent to 90 percent of the world’s food and 100 percent of the world’s children. Yet, for all this, they receive only 10 percent of the world’s income and own less than 1 percent of the world’s property. As a result, women make up 70 percent of the world’s poor.
Moreover, gender violence is more of a threat to women’s health than the sum of traffic accidents and malaria. Often, when women are “seen,” they are seen as simply bodies, to be manipulated in ways that lead to profit. In a very real sense, as people, women are invisible.
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Continue reading “Capitalism, Ecology and the Official Invisibility of Women” at truth-out.org.
Links
- “Mass Protest, Not a Speech, Is Needed to Address Climate Change.” Common Dreams. 27 June 2013.
- “A Tale of Two Conferences: The Social and Ecological Crises of Capitalism.” Collapse of Industrial Civilization. 23 June 2012.
- “Sacrificing the Earth.” International Socialist Review. September 2011.
Media
In Nature’s Wake: The Art and Politics of Environmental Crisis | March 25, 2015
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