{"id":1566,"date":"2015-11-07T19:49:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T18:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripess.eu\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2022-06-01T11:50:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T10:50:16","slug":"ripess-women-and-social-solidarity-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/ripess-women-and-social-solidarity-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"RIPESS: Women and Social Solidarity Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In November 2013, at the International Meeting of RIPESS in Manila, a group of women elaborated and presented in a plenary session a\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/RIPESS_manila2013_gender_statement.pdf\">Declaration for a Gender Perspective in the Social Solidarity Economy<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>underlining the importance for the SSE movement to integrate in its processes a gender perspective as well as a greater attention to issues related to equality between women and men. The women who drafted the Declaration recalled that if women make up the majority of the SSE\u2019s actors, they are also invisible at many levels in the movement, in particular when it comes to the governance of social solidarity economy enterprises. \u201cWomen and men need spaces to discuss and develop a SSE gender perspective within the local, national and international networks of the social solidarity economy\u201d, they claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, in a year that marks the 40<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the first International Women\u2019s Year and the 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a new intercontinental working group is created by RIPESS to promote exchange, reflection and collaboration on a gender perspective and a feminist approach to the SSE.<\/p>\n<p>The integration of this work axis in the network\u2019s action plan has among its objectives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>shed light on the reality, challenges and advances of women in the SSE;<\/li>\n<li>promote and give visibility to women\u2019s innovation in the SSE and to egalitarian practices fostering socioeconomic empowerment;<\/li>\n<li>promote the SSE as a strategy for improving the socio-economic situation of women and girls;<\/li>\n<li>promote the inclusion of this axis in the work of the continental and national networks and local organizations, in statements, action plans, research, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The group\u2019s activities could include giving visibility to analyses and events addressing these issues, contributing to the organization of conferences and workshops as well as creating and strengthening alliances with other movements such as the World March of Women, Neighborhoods of the World, the International Organization of the Francophonie, women\u2019s business networks, feminist groups, groups involved in women\u2019s economic empowerment, UN-Women, EmpowerWomen.org, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The working group will be co-facilitated by Ana Leighton of the Solidarity Economy Network Santiago Chile, coordinator of RIPESS-LAC and Board member of RIPESS Intercontinental, and Ethel C\u00f4t\u00e9, trainer in SSE and an active member of the network of women entrepreneurs of Neighborhood of the World and RIPESS-North America.<\/p>\n<p>To know more on the activities of the working group or express your interest to participate or receive news, please write to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:info@ripess.org\">info@ripess.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November 2013, at the International Meeting of RIPESS in Manila, a group of women elaborated and presented in a plenary session a\u00a0Declaration for a Gender Perspective in the Social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8462,50],"tags":[455,454],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feministnews","category-resources","tag-gender","tag-women-and-sse","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}