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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/gender/2018/07/visions-of-a-feminist-future">https://views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/gender/2018/07/visions-of-a-feminist-future</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#272727;letter-spacing:-.4pt">Visions of a Feminist Future</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.75pt;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">What would a truly feminist world look like? Srushti Mahamuni explores the visions shared by
representatives of feminist organizations and Oxfam staff at a recent learning event.
</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333"><img border="0" width="751" height="450" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D43957.C2EEE0C0" alt="VICTORIA HARNETT (OI PUBLIC CAMPAIGNS LEAD INEQUALITY) LIVE DRAWING DURING THE OPENING OF THE VISIONING A FEMINIST FUTURE’S SESSION."></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">VICTORIA HARNETT (OI PUBLIC CAMPAIGNS LEAD INEQUALITY) LIVE DRAWING DURING THE OPENING OF THE VISIONING A FEMINIST FUTURE’S SESSION.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.75pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">Imagine its 2050 and you wake up one bright and sunny morning – the world as you know it has changed,
for the better. It’s an inclusive, diverse and respectful world – it is a feminist world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">By
<a href="https://views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/author/srushti-mahamuni"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Srushti Mahamuni</span></a>* - July 10, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#272727;letter-spacing:-.4pt">A world in which unpaid care work is valued and shared equally in households<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.75pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">Unpaid care work is often not recognised as work. This not only leads women to bear this heavy
burden all by themselves but also leads to a feminization of unpaid care work. Irrespective of the social class of women, they are expected to perform reproductive labour in the form of unpaid care work without any recognition that their labour is work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.75pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">In the feminist future we envisioned, unpaid care work would be recognised as legitimate work.
Not only this, it will be shared equally in households and the state will provide necessary support to reduce this burden from individuals in society. Don’t think it’s possible?
<a href="http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2017/2/feature-uruguay-care-law">
<span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Uruguay</span></a> is already doing it. <a href="https://www.data2x.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/UruguayCaseStudy_OECDDCR2017.pdf"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Uruguay recognises care as a right
and a role</span></a> (often played by women) and makes space to provide support.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#272727;letter-spacing:-.4pt">A world where GRB is institutionalized<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.75pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">(See
<a href="https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/a-guide-to-gender-responsive-budgeting-620429">
<span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Oxfam’s Guide to Gender Responsive Budgeting</span></a> for more information on this topic).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.75pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">When government budgets are not gender inclusive, it leads to an unequal distribution of public
funds that do not take the needs of women, girls and other marginalized groups into account. In our feminist vision for 2050, we see a world where gender responsive budgeting is institutionalized, a world where gender equal budgets are the norm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.75pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">Another world is possible, take
<a href="http://gender-financing.unwomen.org/en/highlights/gender-responsive-budgets-case-of-morocco">
<span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Morocco</span></a> as an example – Efforts from different development actors and CSOs have resulted in GRB being anchored in Morocco’s budget reform process. A new finance law that was adopted in 2014 ensures that
the needs of women and girls are well reflected in government spending and gender priorities are being mainstreamed throughout the budgeting process.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#272727;letter-spacing:-.4pt">A world with more power balance and better representation of women/trans/lgbtqi+ people in leadership positions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.75pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">Globally women’s participation in the formal labor force is 26% less than that of men and most
women are concentrated in the lowest paid and least secure forms of work. The average gender pay gap worldwide is 23% and according to the World Economic Forum at the current rates of change, the global economic gender gap at work won’t be closed for another
217 years!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.75pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">The current neoliberal, gender blind economic system is the source of widespread inequality and
using gender responsive budgeting tools to bring about a change in economic systems is the way forward for a gender just world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#272727;letter-spacing:-.4pt">A world with well-being for all instead of wealth for a few<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.75pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">In our current economic systems, wealth is accumulated in the hands of a few. According to a report
launched by <a href="https://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressreleases/2018-01-22/richest-1-percent-bagged-82-percent-wealth-created-last-year">
<span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Oxfam</span></a> earlier this year, 82% of the wealth generated last year went to the richest one percent of the global population, while the 3.7 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world saw no increase
in their wealth. And this wealth is accumulated at the cost of exploitation of women and other marginalised groups in society<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.75pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">“Oxfam has spoken to women across the world whose lives are blighted by inequality. Women in Vietnamese
garment factories who work far from home for poverty pay and don’t get to see their children for months at a time. Women working in the US poultry industry who are forced to wear nappies because they are denied toilet breaks,” said Oxfam’s Executive director,
Winnie Byanyima. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.75pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333"><img border="0" width="524" height="868" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D42DD4.21A560B0" alt="https://views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/feminist-portrait.jpg"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.75pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">In this capitalist world order, obsessed with creating more wealth, people’s well-being is often
ignored. Words such as wellbeing, care, and empathy are less valued and considered as ‘feminine’ concerns and qualities. We need a world with less emphasis on wealth and more focus on well-being. A feminist future of our dreams would be one with wellbeing
and fiscal justice for all. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:20.5pt;font-family:Lato;color:#272727">A feminist future of our dreams would be one with wellbeing and fiscal justice for all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#272727;letter-spacing:-.4pt">A world where diversity, intersectionality, and inclusion are valued and where toxic masculinity, racism, and sexism are unimaginable<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.75pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">The patriarchy is not only harmful to women but to men as well. While it oppresses women and restricts
them to subjugated positions in society, it imposes unrealistic expectations on men about what it means to ‘be a man’. For example, little boys are taught from childhood that boys don’t cry, curbing their free expression and instead pushing them to express
their pain in violent ways.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.75pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">Toxic masculinity combined with fear of ‘ the other’ due to racist, populist stereotypes cause
further division and fracture of society. Building on the idea of wellbeing, an ideal feminist world will be one where diversity (of abilities, physical appearance, and thought) will be valued. A world that takes
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6dnj2IyYjE"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">intersectionality</span></a> into account and strives to be truly inclusive of all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:15.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.4pt;margin-left:0in;background:white">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#272727;letter-spacing:-.4pt">A world where we live in harmony with nature and in solidarity with one another<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.75pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">Finally, an ideal feminist world or any world for that matter won’t be possible in 2050 unless
we live in harmony with nature. Climate change is not going away. Worst affected by the devastating effects of climate change are those sections of society that are most dependent on natural resources for their livelihoods and/or who have the least capacity
to respond to natural hazards, such as droughts, landslides, floods, and hurricanes: women. According to the
<a href="https://unfccc.int/topics/gender/the-big-picture/introduction-to-gender-and-climate-change">
<span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">UNFCC</span></a>, women commonly face higher risks and greater burdens from the impacts of climate change in situations of poverty, and the majority of the world’s poor are women.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.75pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">In the ideal feminist future we envisioned, all countries have realized how intertwined living
beings are with nature and taken necessary gender responsive steps to address and minimize climate change.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.75pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">Respect for nature and one another, valuing of care work, well-being and empathy, a fairer power
balance, diverse leadership, inclusion, and solidarity are our visions for a feminist future. We realize that we are all interconnected, although our struggles are different, we have common dreams and goals that can only be achieved by working together. Those
with more power have a responsibility to use their voice and push for feminist change, a change in the current world order that makes way for a world where women and men can live free from fear, free from oppression and up to their fullest potential.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.75pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">We believe a new world is possible, do you?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.75pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">*From the 26</span><sup><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">th</span></sup><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">
to the 29</span><sup><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">th</span></sup><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333"> of June 2018 FEMNET, DAWN, Women’s
Budget group, and Oxfam affiliates and partners from all over the world gathered in Morocco to dive deeper into issues of fiscal gender justice, specifically
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mquOclPJYPs"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">gender responsive budgeting</span></a> (GRB). One particularly fascinating session looked at envisioning a feminist future in which all that we are trying to
achieve comes true. This above highlights were revealed in this session.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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