Towards Gendered Global Economic Governance: A Three-Dimensional Analysis of Social Forces

Abstract

This chapter examines some of the key ideas, institutions and power potentials that constitute the principal social forces associated with the architecture and practices of global economic governance. The chapter highlights their gendered and socially unequal character and distribution repercussions in the light of the global economic crisis. How this situation might be transformed to produce a different kind of global economic governance that acknowledges the inequalities of race and class and particularly gender and an economic system premised upon human needs, is discussed in the final part of this chapter.¹