Feminist Political Economy and the Failures of the Economic Discipline • Sri Lanka Brief

Feminist Political Economy and the Failures of the Economic Discipline • Sri Lanka Brief

Ahilan Kadirgamer. A majority of women are employed in Sri Lanka’s apparel industry which is a main contributor to the GDP. Feminist Economics analyses the gendered workings of the economy, including inequalities in employment and wages. The 2020s is turning out to be a decade of great unravelling of the global order much like the 1930s. The Great Depression of the 1930s and the aggravation of the debt crisis in countries like Germany, paved the…