How Globalization and Developing Economies will Impact Women

In document 3, two women in Japan talk about their lives working in the factories. Both women worked from morning when it was still dark, to ten at night where they hardly had the strength to stand (document 3). In their first year of working neither woman was paid but, when they were paid it was very little. There were many sick people at the factory who had tuberculosis, which the woman’s sister contracted, died from (document 3). The factory girls in the rural areas of Japan were very useful to farmers because they were paid more than the entire income of a farmer’s (document 4). This is where all of the cheap workers came from in Japan. Farming communities had just enough to buy the necessities for the parents and siblings so that is why factory workers pay is so little; they only need to care for themselves (document 5). In India most factory workers come from peasants, agricultural laborers of the villages, and unemployed hand weavers. They work less than two years in the factory and their wages are low (document 9). The textile industry in India is increasing because of native bankers and investors who invest large capitol (document 6). The majority of Japan’s workers come from farming communities while India's workers come from agricultural laborers and unemployed hand weavers but, all of the workers are poorly paid. India has less human workers because of the bankers and investors investing their money to get more machines to do the

The Women’s Rights Movement is very popular, and tracing back through the extensive history of all the powerful women the world has had, we learn that one important starting point was during the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution is was “the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840 (Powell 2017).” The revolution introduced new ways of manufacturing and selling goods. New machinery, ways of thinking, and factories were prevalent during this time period- as well as the introduction of women working in large-scale locations. Before

Women who were working in factories were severely impacted socially and economically during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Young women were found to dominate the silk and textile factories, however, they did not receive the same pay as men. The chart referencing gender and age of silk factory workers in five English Towns in 1833 reveals that 63 to 96% of the workers were female, which of those were 35 to 53% under the age of 16. (Document A). The chart referencing gender and age of silk factories in Nagano, Japan in 1901 show that 12,519 females worked in 205 mills, which was 92% of the population. The ages of the female workers reveal that 18% were 14 and under, 48% were 15 to 20 years old, and 34% were over the age of 20 (Document B). The

Large numbers of women have entered into the workforce as the commercial industry has taken over much of what used to be done within the household, such as the production of clothing, baking, food preparation, and the creation of candles and soaps. As women are entering into the workforce they are entering into a environment that discriminates strongly on the basis of gender, social class, race, and ethnicity (Treacy, 2015,). Jobs available to women consist of being a teacher, nurse, medical/business professional, office worker, clerk, factory worker, waitress, or a domestic worker. Despite the variety of jobs available to women, many typically still work within a factory. There is a distinct hierarchy even amongst women within the workforce, the farer your skin and the identity of being an American, the better opportunity for a better job (Treacy,

As industrialization spread in Western Europe, the production of products and goods moved from the household to factories which drastically changed family life. Married women were unable to work unless they left their children and home in someone else’s care. Moreover, middle-class women generally did not leave their homes in order to work. In contrast, the women of Eastern Asia rapidly joined the work force after the introduction of industrialization and made up a gigantic portion of the labor force. This difference is probably due to the fact that the rural women of Eastern Asia were always laborers, and they make up the majority of the female population. Additionally, European women generally preferred domestic labor to laborious tasks. Rural women were offered independence by leaving their homes in order to perform domestic work; they generally sent their earnings to their families or saved it for themselves. Moreover, the European women that participated in the work force were forced to travel long distances and were separated from their families from long hours. Additionally, their wages were significantly lower than that of their male counterparts. Furthermore, women worked under poor conditions and were constantly susceptible to disease. Similarly, the poor women of Eastern Asia sought employment in the cotton and silk industry.

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

Life on the Global Assembly Line by Barbara Ehrenreich and Annette Fuentes is an essay which describes the deplorable working and living conditions that women around the world suffer in order to earn a supposedly decent living. In their essay, Ehrenreich and Fuentes goes into detail how the female factory workers are exploited by their superiors in order to efficiently and cost effectively mass produce. I chose to present an analysis on this essay because I believe it conveys continuously unresolved issues which have plagued society throughout the centuries; I am of course referring to the conundrum of gender inequality.

This is discussed in Chapter 13 in the textbook, which covers the 1800s period where industry and machines in factories rose, and women were able to work , take wages and depend on themselves like in the mill factories. However, this document comes to notice the issue of their poor work conditions following the decline in

Growing markets led to rapid change throughout the late 18th century. Corporations employed women in their factories, white color workers were getting higher pay than blue color workers, and improved technology advancements allowed for a more efficient production system. Corporations employed women in their factories for cheap labor and improved technological advancements for a more efficient production system. Poor working conditions and new technology gave the “American public and the world access to a flood of cheap, affordable items that were unthinkable just years before.”

The author chose to end the book with Sassen’s chapter because Sassen has pointed out how women have contributed to globalization. She also states the idea that migrant women working as nannies, sex workers and immigrants are all crucial for the economy. The author wants the reader to understand that woman’s society position have changed, they are actually part of the key components of the new economies. This chapter has greatly indicated the importance of women.

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

Throughout the history of mankind, the rank of women has been extremely pivotal in the development of the humans. At present, the progress of the nation is determined by the high positions of the women in the society in terms of the employment and the work. It is said that without the contribution of the women in the political, business, social, economic and national activities, the growth of the country will stagnate. Although in the past, the women were more accustomed to working in homes and taking care of children, etc. but now they are stepping into the outside world due to advances in education for women and increasing awareness.

Motivation for the Research: In recent years, globalization and international trade has become a significant issue for countries. Consumers tend to use more goods and services and due to the lack of resources, the need to trade with other countries seems to be inevitable. Assuming that globalization would occur, labor factors become noteworthy. Although growth in international trade provide more job opportunities for people, there are still inequality in wage between male and female labors.

Globalization has had a significant impact on the lives of women in the developing nations, which we will further examine in the two countries – Bangladesh and Kenya. In this paper, Globalization is defined as “a complex economic, political, cultural, and geographic process in which the mobility of capital, organizations, ideas, discourses, and people has taken a global or transnational form (Valentine Moghadam 1999). Globalization has more negative effects on women in third world countries such as Kenya and Bangladesh. Corporations hire people in the third world countries, due to the cheap labor force. Corporations like to hire more women than men in the cheap labor force, because women “work in labor intensive industries at lower wages

rstly review the literature on women andindustrialisation world-widely. However, as the routes to and features of industrialisation are very different in the developed countries and the developing ones (see Butschek, 2006; Stoneburner and Angelos, 2005; Myrdal, 1970), the following review will have a greater focus on the developing countries, which have more comparative value to China. It offers both a theoretical framework and a bigger context for china’s case to stand against.