A Feminist Future is on My Wish List
This holiday season, the realest riches and greatest gifts aren’t money. It’s your health, happiness, and the hope of thriving — and not just for yourself but for your family, your neighbors, our cities and farms, and the living environment that nourishes all of us. It’s long past time for this greater wealth to be at the center of our economy — but a change that big won’t happen without many more credible women’s voices.
Will you help us shift the script on a sexist economy? Your donation to An Economy of Our Own before the end of 2021 will help us move the vision of a feminist economy forward. If you join our Giving Circle before the end of this year, you’ll also guarantee us a powerful foundation for expanding and sustaining the work we’ve been doing to rewrite what our economy considers business-as-usual.
The last two years have shined a harsh light on the cracks in an old economy we’ve long known hurts women most, especially women of color — but really it devalues anyone who doesn’t believe money is humanity’s highest good. Let’s act quickly before the promised economic “recovery” camouflages what we know about whose work is most essential.
Unspoken expectations that half of our population “just naturally” does “non-monetized” work places mothers among the poorest — and cheapens the caring jobs market, supposedly feminine. The old economy counts Mother Earth’s eco-care as free for the taking, too — and she’s as depleted and near-collapse as many of us are. Covid helped us see how all life is interconnected, and yet what’s most essential is most often shortchanged.
It’s long past time for a new normal — and a woman-centered economy in which most of us wouldn’t need to be poor so a few could be rich. Please consider supporting our work in the coming year to power our conversations, courses, and resource library — all of which fuel a better way forward.
Putting caring time up on an unpaid pedestal is wrong, but not that surprising. Business and money have been male-dominated the past 2500 years. Women were barred from it for most of those years. We ourselves were property and couldn’t own it; we were blocked from education and professions. Until 1974 and our organized activism, banks could still demand a male co-signer on women’s bank accounts.
Women have long challenged old linear ideas about inputs and outputs for markets and money, insisting on a more circular whole economy that productively sustains climate, water, soil — and people, too. Give to AEOO today to join the chorus of voices speaking out against age-old wrongs — and calling for a feminist economic future.
Together, we’re demanding the change our friends, families, and communities need — and the intersectional reforms that will bring us all prosperity, regardless of our gender or race or myriad other factors in our lives.
