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DoubleX Economy

The mission of the Double X Economy is to make visible the considerable and interconnected economic activities of women, as well as to join in the worldwide effort to include them in the global economy.

Linda Scott was an early pioneer in the movement to empower women by increasing their engagement with the market economy.

Her concept, The Double X Economy, reimagines the world economy as a complex, interconnected, and potentially powerful community of women, engaged not only as consumers and workers, but as investors, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists—the full range of economic activity.  She develops this concept through specialised projects and partnerships that test new interventions for helping women overcome traditional obstacles to economic empowerment, such as lack of access to capital or markets.

Why? While women have always engaged in economic behavior, their activities and outcomes have usually gone unnoticed, unmeasured, untracked, and unregulated, because of assumptions and limitations inherent in conventional economic thought. Because women usually are either employed in informal work or in unmonetized work, their considerable power has been made invisible by valuation systems that only recognize monetized transactions. The further tendency to focus on production without recognizing the role consumption plays in developing human capabilities and setting ethical standards has tended to obscure the power and reach of the women’s economy.

www.doublexeconomy.com/


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  • Women’s Economic Empowerment: Strengthening Public and Private Sector Impact through Accountability and Measurement (SDG 5)
    • Boris Branisa (Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD))
    • Gala Díaz Langou (Centro de Implementacion de Politicas Publicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento (CIPPEC))
    • Dinah Bennett (International Consultants for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise (ICE))
    • Jacqueline Berford (Women’s World Banking)
    • Eleanor Carey (Data2X)
    • Yolanda Gibb (Women’s Economic Imperative)
    • Colette Henry (Dundalk Institute of Technology)
    • Eun Kyung Kim (Korean Women’s Development Institute)
    • Karen Miller (Women’s World Banking)
    • Mari Miura (Sophia University)
    • Nicola Patterson (Newcastle University)
    • Smita Premchander (Sampark)
    • Linda Scott (DoubleX Economy)
    • Margo Thomas (Women’s Economic Imperative)
  • T20 Co-Chair Brief
    Achieving “25 by 25”: Actions to make Women’s Labour Inclusion a G20 Priority
    • Alina Sorgner (Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW))
    • Boris Branisa (Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD))
    • Carolina Robino (International Development Research Centre)
    • Cindy Drakeman (DoubleX Economy)
    • Estela Rivero Fuentes (Counting Women’s Work)
    • Florencia Caro Sachetti (Centro de Implementacion de Politicas Publicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento (CIPPEC))
    • Gala Díaz Langou (Centro de Implementacion de Politicas Publicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento (CIPPEC))
    • Margarita Beneke de Sanfeliu (Fundación Salvadoreña Para El Desarrollo Economico Y Social (FUSADES))
    • Paloma Ochoa (Fundación ICBC)

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