“…Women are very active in specific fair-trade value chains (Charlier, 2006;Saussey & Elias, 2012), barter clubs and social currencies (Saiag, 2015). They make up the majority of workers in environment and housing improvement initiatives-parks, low-income housing, sanitation, waste management, water management (Bisilliat, 1995;Haritas, 2014;Saussey & Degavre, 2015;Suremain, 1996;Verschuur, , 2008Verschuur, , 2012, child-care and eldercare organizations and cooperatives (Fournier et al, 2013;Fournier, 2017;ILO, 2015;Suremain, 1996) as well as health care mutuals and savings and credit unions (Chatterjee, 2015;Fonteneau, 2015;Johnson, 2015;Sudarshan, 2015). In rural areas, women play an active role in subsistence agricultural cooperatives (Angulo, 2011;Guétat-Bernard & Saussey, 2014;León, 1980) and agroecology (Hillenkamp & Nobre, 2018;Prévost, 2015).…”