Globalization And Globalization

In the text "Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy" by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild discusses the underlying issue of why these women are forced to leave their homes and go to developed countries to work. The issue is that there is not enough money in the third world countries because all the goods have been taken by developed countries. During colonialism, the developed countries were gaing so much leaving little for these third world countries. Even though colonialism is not as prevalent today there is still some type of inequality where developed countries are still taking workers from countries that are struggling economically. Some women have to move far away because

Women from diasporas in Third World countries, such as China and the Philippines, search for jobs in First World countries and migrate in order to make enough money to send back home. However, these women are often exploited in the labor force, or taken advantage of by their manager. For instance, emotional labor is work that regulates or suppresses other people’s emotions and feelings. Nursing or nanny work are common examples of emotional labor because these occupations demand more communication and interaction. People from Third World nation-states often come from a Communist system, in which all property is publicly owned and everyone works and is paid accordingly, to a Capitalist system, in which the country’s trade and industry are privately owned and the labor force exploits workers. As seen in the film Mardi Gras: Made in China and the novel Global Woman, Director David Redmon and authors Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild portray the exploitation of women in the workforce and in marriage from Third World countries, thus suggesting that imposing emotional labor on female workers puts people in developing nation-states at a greater disadvantage and ultimately makes the poor worse off.

The book “Global Woman” edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild focuses on the lives of women that leave their third world country to work in homes as nannies or servants and others even sex work. These women take on that labor without knowing what results will come from their desperate action. The authors explain and recount the stories of many of the women whom have had to sacrifice their lives. These women sacrifice it all to provide for themselves and their families and give them a better life, this is told through different chapters.

Obtaining a well suitable job is essential to having an enjoyable life. In Latin America, the struggle to achieve this ambitious goal is difficult especially for women. Traditional values and cultural beliefs in Latin American society often explain why women face higher unemployment rates and less job prospects. Additionally, as the global economy becomes advanced due in part to technological innovations, women are often left out as education is seen more important for men. Nonetheless, it is possible for Latin American women to find employment in either formal and informal sector jobs. The difference between working in these sectors is that the working conditions for women are greatly varied in the

Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential. They make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world, the greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population. Countries such as China have prospered precisely because they emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do; it’s also the best strategy for fighting poverty.

Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild’s collection of writing titled: Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex workers in the New Economy, published in 2002, is a good description of the dirty little secrets that haunt many underprivileged, non-white, Third World women experience. This reading is a rather detailed story of hard working women that are trying to support their families back in their native lands. Domestic servants are nothing new to the world- it’s something that has been passed down through many generations, continuing the persona of oppressed women. Millions of people, mostly from poor countries, flee hundreds and sometimes thousands of miles to seek better pay for their families.

As some women in first world countries go out of the home to work, women from lower classes immigrant women from the third world perform the functions of childcare, ‘homemaking’, domestic tasks etc. these women who constitute the transnational labor of care have bad working conditions, few rights and opportunities or work satisfaction. As some upper class women break the glass ceiling, other women enter the market to perform the transnational labor of care, at low wages and bad conditions, without these women to perform the domestic tasks, to perform this transnational labor of care( example of Filipino migrant maids), other privileged women would not be able to leave the home to work and take up white collar occupations. Thus some women

They express that women’s economic status has changed dramatically in the recent decades and that we need to step outside if what we deem women workers as and realize labelling is not helping. We need to realize that women are diverse and have a range of skills, just as men do. This is useful for my paper as, the authors find that hours are the most dominant factor for the contributing of the GWG and that breaking stigmas about women workers not only need to happen in the workforce but forced in family dynamics as well in order to create

Every society in the history of mankind has assigned work by gender; without work done by each gender economies could not thrive. Chapter 12 of Hunter College Women’s and Gender Studies Collective fourth edition depicts the truth about inequality, discrimination in the workforce against women and how globalization overall effects women. As the Hunter College Women and Gender Studies Collective (HCWGSC, 2015) states, “…women complete more than two thirds of the world’s unpaid work.” (p. 350), this is an issue for women world-wide. Each culture has different values, roles, and social norms they follow, and this includes gender specific roles and jobs. There is more to work equality than feminism; status, race and value play a major role on equality

Throughout time, women have endured many things. In Never Leave Yourself by Eileen P. Anderson-Fye and Reinterpreting the Labor Mobility of Rural Young Women in post-Mao China by Yan Hairong, women have had to change during times of modernity; different ideas have become salient in the minds of these women due to the forces of modernity and globalization. An idea or sense of liberation is apparent in both of these articles. Belizean women have managed to succeed on what they perceive as liberation; however, rural young women in China have made failed attempts to do so. Despite this, it does not change the fact that women want to be freed from the oppression they get in the patriarchal society they live in. Globalization can have a crucial effect on the way things work in countries which would initiate a way for modernity to pass through and culturally transform a people’s way of thinking or living. Specifically, in the cases of rural young women in China or Belizean women in San Andres, it has had the most impact on them.

The author, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka who is the Under-Secretary-General and the Executive Director of UN Women and a former South African politician, said in her article, “Where women do have jobs, globally they are paid 24 per cent less than men, on average. For the most part, the world's women are in low-salaried, insecure occupations, like small-scale farming, or as domestic workers - a sector where they comprise 83 per cent of the workforce,” (Mlambo-Ngcuka). Women, though they make up a large majority of the workforce in those occupations, do not make as much money as men, nearly a quarter less. This article was published in April of 2015, so the information in her article is not outdated in the slightest.

In many developing countries globalization has brought masses of wealth to the elite at the expense of the poor. Consequently, many women of the poorer classes leave their homeland in search of opportunities for employment. These women are disproportionately affected by

Globalization is taking place across the world where people can either become globalization or stay local in the state or country. People are very controversial about globalization helping local economies and local businesses. Some people believe globalization is helping local businesses into the markets and then there are some that believe that multinational corporations hurting the local small businesses. What is globalization? “the development of an increasingly integrated global economy marked especially by free trade, free flow of capital, and the tapping of cheaper foreign labor markets” (). Globalization has started long before we were born.

This article addresses four main points. First, at the UN’s Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, the significance of women’s contribution was emphasized by the World Bank. However, according to the authors, the perception of women as goods was strengthened by the World Bank because of its emphasis on economic outcomes and its consequent failure to pay attention to the meaning of women’s empowerment and gender equality. Second, the World Bank, UN agencies and other institutions were observed to value only young women and girls, thus completely ignoring men’s role . Third, despite the existence of programs encouraging women empowerment such as microfinance and conditional cash transfers, women are forced to work for their livelihood coupled with the burden of housework. The authors also cast doubt on the notion that investing in young women and girls leads to the promotion of women’s empowerment and gender equality, or actually improves the economy as they are often unconsciously regarded as cheaper labor . Therefore, they underscored that while smart economics might

Meanwhile, as a number of studies have confirmed, women workers predominate in informal employment (Standing, 1989). To guarantee the survival of themselves and their families, women use a wide range of informal employment. Informal employment has not only become a crucial method of female employment in developed countries, but also become a major means of female employment in developing countries, especially of immigrant women.