Long thread: @AlexandraGeese s study by @economistaxcaso and Elizabeth Klatzer shows
#nextgenerationEU (the EU Commission's recovery& resilience fund to respond to the effects covid-19) is bizarrely gender blind https://alexandrageese.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Gender-Impact-Assessment-NextGenEU_Klatzer_Rinaldi.pdf 1/13

The analysis covers 10 themes & shows #nextgenerationEU doesn’t fulfil the EU’s gender mainstreaming commitments. 2/13

The2020-2025 EU GE Strategy commitments included strengthening GM to “systematically include a gender perspective in all stages of policy design in all EU policy areas, internal & external [to] assess the gender equality effects of any EU policy”See https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52020DC0152&from=EN 3/13

The proposed recovery and resilience funds also don’t address the commitments in the GE strategy to close the gender care gap. School and childcare closures have pushed care back into the home disproportionately affecting women. 4/13

Front line care workers going the extra mile 2 deal with the covid crisis R mostly women &/or migrants or people with a ‘minority ethnic’ background(BTW that's a construct. Globally, 'minority ethnic' ppl R actually the majority, they're just minoritized by European racism). 5/13

@AlexandraGeese s study completed by @economistaxcaso & Elizabeth Klatzer shows large numbers of women hv ceased job-seeking,4 example - 30% among Italian women (nearly x2 th number of men). And 27% of German mothers (compared to 16% of men( reduced their hours during covid. 6/13

So how has the #nextgenerationEU honed in on responding 2 these pre-existing asymmetries in distribution of care & its poor pay & working conditions? (also noted in the 2020-2025 EU GE Strategy) 7/13

Well, #nextgenerationEU focuses on investment in agriculture, construction, energy, transport & ICT. NOT the sectors most directly affected by covid which are Education, health & social work, accommodation & food,arts culture & recreation, and domestic services. 8/13

Men work in the industries the EU has selected for investment in its #nextgenerationEU, women work in the sectors most affected by Covid-19. 9/13

This investment pattern is particularly daft because modeling shows that investing public funds in care yields a greater increase in GDP than investment in construction 10/13 @jerome_dehenau and @suehimmmelweit

See for the full workings of that BTW, see @jerome_dehenau and @suehimmmelweit
‘s 2016 explanation of the multiplier effect and their analysis https://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/care_economy_en.pdf 11/13

So, we’re seeing a repeat of econ policy mistakes from last crisis. P-makers R not taking account of what really creates resilience and recovery. They don’t understand ‘productive’ economy’s dependence on care. They don’t respect/value it or the ppl performing it adequately.12/13

"All #nextgenerationEU proposals and projects should have robust gender impact assessments, sex-disaggregated data and the application of Gender Budgeting in planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, with gender mainstreaming applied to budgets and investments” 13/13