Globalization Of Women In The United States

Women have been a vital key to the shaping and progression of our society. Throughout time, women’s roles and opportunities in the family, workplace, and society have greatly evolved. They started from being housewives that don’t have many rights, even in the household, to being valued citizens in our

The status of women and children is an important factor in determining the standards of living in a country. Women have enormous potential as both thinkers and hands-on workers. They can contribute in different ways to help better their countries. But yet, many countries take on patriarchy stance and suppress the women, effectively cutting the country’s workforce in half. Children are another big difference

From this scenario, it brings up the issue of how women are still seen as being inferior to men when it comes to the business setting (Harvey & Allard, 2012). This scenario also talks about how someone who is part of the minority is also seen as being inferior to White Americans. From all of this, it creates a

Paid work for women moved from principally customary female-situated employments to all the more non-conventional and already male-arranged vocations. Ladies ' support in the workforce prompted them to start careers in the field dominated by male in the 20th century. Career yearnings were affected by elements, such as sexual orientation, financial status, race, occupation and instruction level, and parental desires. This paper exhibits how women developed, changed and the challenges they faced in the 20th century in America in the workforce and the advancement of ladies ' careers, improvement and profession goals during the 20th century in United States. Also, gender issues affecting women will be discussed in details during this period and how women played their role in fighting for their rights.

India has an ancient caste system that separates Hindus into different classes. The Untouchables are below the 4 caste categories and are treated terribly. They are denied many jobs, and on a daily basis men and women are assaulted. The world Social Forum was made aware of the situation, yet not much has changed. Mahila Jagruthi is an untouchable women, otherwise known as a Dalit who has informed the world through her paper Commodification of Women Due to Imperialist Globalization.The protest so far has not resulted in a fair system. Most forms of protest are non violent. The resistance is found through forums, and world organizations. Many Dalits work to help the situation by going directly to government officials. Jagruthi wrote her paper

The status of women can be related when observing the economic, social, and political aspects of a first or third world country. When a country has a good economic position in terms of infrastructure, labor and education, we can relate how much power or social equality will be distributed for each individual. In a first world country like Canada women earned in 2013 approximately a total income of $30, 100 whereas men earned $47,000 (Williams, 2010, p.7). Even though the economic gap proofs to have a wage disparities, this has helped women to gain power, voice, and rights for their fight for equality. Living under a first world country, can be an advantaged for many women who have better opportunities and other benefits offered in their country. On the other hand, living under a third world country where the economy is limited and controlled this will have a huge impact on the, status and rights for women. According to the Department of Labor and Employment (2016) in Myanmar an individual makes approximately $2.74 an hour. The position of women can be maximized or minimized on many variants such as political participation, social environment, marriage, and domestic violence this will benefit or affect the status of women.

She explains that to the success of women’s struggle to implement women studies as an academic discipline, it caused more harm than good to the concept of feminism. Women, before feminism was implemented as academic discipline would create discussion groups to confront their own sexist thought and behavior, but when feminism became an academic discipline it lost it true meaning and it became about privileged white middle class women who wanted to move to higher positions with a focus on women being “victims” of men. This was very interesting, because being in a women’s study class today it appears to me like we have something similar to the discussion groups that could talk about their internalized sexism and the oppression they have been under or

Globalization currently constitutes for the mass movement of labor especially from developing to developed nations. However, some aspects of globalization have resulted to the formation of structures that have resulted to exploitation and domination of labor force (Mohanty, 2013). Notably, when movement of labor is involved, issues about gender inequality arises and other aspects such as sexism, and racism as facets of colonialism in the current global economic era. For instance, women from developing countries are normally involved with the provision of childcare, health care, and domestic services to developed countries that have high income countries. Even though most of these women migrate at their own discretion, some of them have been subjected to human trafficking to serve as domestic workers in foreign countries (Pyle, 2006).

The deepening globalization and the following development of economy have made big changes in policies and economic structures in many developing countries, such as China, Mexico and Thailand. They were pushed in the trend to make economic transitions from agriculture dependent economy to export-oriented industrial economy. But any transitions to a new era cannot be painless; there must be someone who has to pay the price for this big change. Women as factories workers are going to become this group of people who get the greatest impact.

“Low female literacy rates and low gross domestic product results in higher fertility rates and higher maternal mortality rates. By improving literacy and education of women this pattern could be changed.”

The gendered relations have consequently shaped the cultural and societal norms as result of the economic forms of globalization. As women are entering the work force, they have become more autonomous and are able to “live [how they] want” (Sengupta). What’s more, the role of women in the family is changing because they have reduced domestic expectations. Many women are deferring marriages, while they make money, obtain higher levels of education, and live lives that most of their mothers could not have dreamed of. Additionally, in a highly communicative globalized world, there are new models of attainment with seeing women in roles of leadership, whether it is politically or economically, women may feel empowered to exercise their desire for high powers of leadership and to exercise femininity in such an emancipative way. This could result in increased political representation and participation in feminist movements by woman.

Women are being impacted by globalization each and every day. First, globalization is known as process where people, ideas, even goods are scattered throughout the world, intertwining interaction and integration among the world’s culture, economy, and government 's (Whatisdot). Economically, women are being used for cheap labor, being paid less, treated unequally in the effects of globalization. However, others argue that wages women receive are sufficient enough to support their families. Furthermore, women are more likely to create unions when protesting together. In the cultural aspect, women are left with only working in the formal sector and doing housework because of today’s societies, the patriarchal standard. Women working in the house work constantly, especially in developing nations where everything isn’t easily accessible. But, opponents argue that by working in the house or other environments women feel a sense of power and also help boost how they feel about themselves. In the political aspect, globalization has helped women create groups to help fight for change. Meanwhile, others argue that environmental issues cause barriers for women to get a job or to even provide for their families. Considering these situations, does globalization help benefit women or instead cause barriers for them to succeed in the global south?

Globalization does not just affect global economics, it also improved women’s social status. Because women started to work outside and earn money to support the family. Before globalization, women were forced to take care of family. Since women had no economic supports, they were not able to survive without their families, so they had to follow their husbands without doubts. Men believed that the best wife should stay at home for housework, they would feel shame and angry if women worked outside. All the surrounding people would judge the man, they would say that the man was poor, was useless because he had no ability to protect his whole family. Since men had to cover all economic pressure, they controlled the families’ future, men hold power and women had to rely on them. Thanks for the coming of globalization, this kind of situation has been changed. Due to the economic independence, women are able to choose their own lives.

1. The results of modernization and western cultural values on the social status and economic status in “Third World” women can be greatly attributed and resulted from colonialism, industrialization, and economic and political system have resulted in the status of women. Men were drawn into the labor force and women were relegated to domestic work and jobs that are not substantial. It is all gender-related economically and politically, for example the ownership of land, the lack of colonial administrators registering women’s assists and the lack of access to money to purchase land. This is just one example on the western’s influence and changes to the Third World that affected these women in these countries.

The book is an account of the wide range of structural issues faced by women in third world nations. The couple has traveled the globe as reporters and share their findings along with a list of action steps they believe should be taken. They did a phenomenal job both in detailing the horrors faced by women around the world and also the reasons to be optimistic about a brighter future. There is no need to mince words, women across the globe are subject to horrible, unthinkable situations: rampant human sex trafficking, forced child prostitution, honor killings, public gang rapes, genital mutilation, hunger, childbirth complications, lack of access to medical care, and lack of