A Feminist's Guide to Who Pays, Who Benefits, and Who Decides This article is for anyone who has ever wondered: where does our money go? Why does the system feel rigged? What is tax justice, and why should I care? It lays the foundation for the "Tax Justice through a Feminist Lens" series. If you are new to these ideas, start here. The series spotlights women. Not because they are the only ones the system fails, but because their experience exposes tax injustice most clearl

This series examines tax justice through a feminist lens. Previous pieces asked who holds power over tax systems, how gender assumptions are baked into fiscal policy, what it means to be an economic ghost, how daily levies extract without recording, and what happens when the economic ghost reaches old age. This article asks what happens when she falls sick. When she gives birth. When she dies. The voices in Kampala said: "I have never accessed free healthcare. Not once." Th

This series examines tax justice through a feminist lens. Previous pieces asked who holds power over tax systems, how gender assumptions are baked into fiscal policy, what it means to be an economic ghost, and how daily levies extract without recording. This article unpacks the second layer of invisibility named in Part Three: what happens to the economic ghost when she is old. The woman who pays market fees for forty years will retire with nothing. The woman who pays presu