Engendered Economics: Incorporating Diversity Into Political Economy: Incorporating Diversity Into Political Economy by Ellen Mutari & Heather Boushey & William Fraher

Author:Ellen Mutari & Heather Boushey & William Fraher [Mutari, Ellen & Boushey, Heather & Fraher, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Political Science, Media Studies, History & Theory
ISBN: 9781315479156
Google: vrIYDQAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 32206799
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-09-16T00:00:00+00:00

Economist Wendy Lee Gramm (1994) presents supply-side policies as a feminist agenda, maintaining that women share in the losses wrought by pay equity and other forms of government regulation: “Women’s advocates should support free and competitive international markets, lower capital-gains taxes, lower income taxes and fewer burdensome government regulations. And they should oppose government-imposed solutions like quotas, comparable worth, or socialized medicine, because these measures promote economic inefficiency, increase employer costs and decrease the demand for labor.”

The pursuit of productivity underlies the newer calls for functional, in addition to external, flexibility. However, functional flexibility presents a moving target for the technocratic versions of pay equity strategy, which were most successful in the public sector during the 1980s; if workers are not assigned fixed responsibilities, formal job evaluation becomes more difficult (Bakker 1991). In a restructuring political economy, with the state under attack as diverting resources from the market, and corporate strategies emphasizing lower labor costs and functional flexibility, pay equity strategies may themselves need “restructuring.” Pay equity, broadly understood as addressing inequities in low-wage jobs and occupations and as drawing upon the notion of the undervaluation of women’s work, can be pursued through a variety of means. These alternative mobilizations are discussed further in the final section of this chapter.

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