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Role of Women in Establishing Economic Democracy
With Mirra Price
Program Content: Women are at the center of the economic fallout from a systemic crisis, which is constitutional as well as economic. The anti-DEI initiatives taken by the current administration may impact women more than any other disenfranchised group, since women have been key recipients of programs ending gender discrimination in employment, initiatives to make workplaces safer and free from harassment, gains in access to leadership positions, and efforts to lessen the gender pay gap.
In a true economic democracy, women will become empowered and will have more of a key role as stakeholders in a new system based on true economic democracy to which the middle and under classes, women, people of color, the elderly, and youth will attain appropriate access to economic resources.
For women to become empowered to level the playing field, they must have access to higher paid jobs and be provided help in creating women-owned businesses. Access to universal, low-cost childcare is important to enable mothers to work or attend school. There needs to be strict enforcement against violence against women in the workplace, home, and society in general.
When women control their own financial resources, they can achieve independence from men. In a true economic democracy, localities will control their own economies. By focusing on the empowerment of women, families will be strengthened, allowing an egalitarian approach to establishing an economic democracy in which everyone will be guaranteed the minimum necessities of life, and the standard of living will be raised by increasing the purchasing capacity of all.
Mirra Price is an author, editor, feminist, social and political activist, and retired high school English teacher. She lives in and breathes the fresh air of Asheville, North Carolina.
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