This event was recorded live. As some feminist epistemologists (Gilligan, Belenky et al.) have taught us, seeing and seeking connections seems to be women’s ways of knowing. Our economics is lived in real complex communities. Our goal is to model how women can talk together and learn together about traditionally male territory still new to most women. Together we can construct a fuller knowledge and set of values now omitted from the mainstream “free market.” To that end, we're making the webinar—and will make all of them moving forward—available here for viewing forevermore.

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The work women do is mostly underpaid, always undervalued, and frequently invisible. That won’t change till we change the way we value women’s contributions, paid or unpaid. Our society values what we count and measure. Advocates for a Caring Economy insist we count and value how caring makes the world go around.

Riane Eisler (feminist ROCK STAR and Caring Economy enthusiast who wrote The Chalice and the Blade and The Real Wealth of Nations) will connect the links between the invisibility of care work, women’s discounted paychecks for care work, and what the pandemic has helped us see more clearly: all our work at home we’re expected to do for free. Khara Jabola-Carolus of Hawaii’s Commission on Women will report on her state’s The Feminist Post-Covid Economic Recovery Plan). Artist Patti Maciecz has created an invoice for all that invisible work and value. She calls it “Bill the Patriarchy”, part of her Invisible Labor Union. Martha Collins from the Milwaukee area food bank will bring the perspective of single moms who are doing it all, and often facing poverty.