Rosalie Berthier sur X :
▻https://twitter.com/RosalieBerthier/status/1750498975889641480
A fascinating read*** - and extremely interesting to think in parallel to the discourse around “re-arming French demography” for example.
@SaharMech explains how institutions, like the IMF, impose austerity measures on states such as Tunisia forcing women out of the working force. Austerity means less support to education, health, kindergarten, nurse services, etc.
When care work is no longer a public priority, and society withdraw collective funding, it always increases the unpaid, invisible labor of women. Women, in turn, have less time, energy and resource to allocate to formal, paid labor. In Tunisia, they drop out of the workforce.
In France, our neo liberal model has also been defunding care work for decades. Women may decide to stay in the workforce, but they have limited time, energy and resource to raise a family. This has been a contributing factor to a lower natality.
To increase women paid work in Tunisia or “re-arm French demography” we must collectively decide how we share, fund, and reward, care work.
* السياسات التقشّفية وإقصاء المرأة من سوق العمل | صفر
▻https://alsifr.org/women-austerity
