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LDCs in a Globalizing World: a Strategy for Gender Balanced Sustainable Development
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 1999Market liberalisation has led to the pricing of natural resources on which women often depend, increased health risk due to increased responsibilities and worsening food security problems.DocumentThe Globalized Women: Reports from a Future of Inequality
Spinifex Press, 1998Globalisation has led to growth without jobs in the North, structural adjustment in the South, privatisation in the East and the dismantling of states everywhere. It is also a process which depends on the feminisation of employment. Rather than liberating women in to the workplace, globalisation has bred a new underclass of low paid or unpaid women workers.DocumentWomen's Empowerment and Economic Justice: Reflecting on Experience in Latin America and the Caribbean
2000Results from initial research on women and globalisation in Latin America and the Caribbean point to the importance of analysing women's economic empowerment within the existing socio-economic and political context of the countries in which these women live.DocumentMoving the Goalposts: Gender and Globalisation in the Twenty-first Century
Oxfam, 2000The ability to grasp the best opportunities brought about by the expansion of global trade and production are determined by women and men's different degrees of freedom to take on waged employment and their level of skills and training, including literacy. Women (and men) who have responsibilities for unpaid reproductive work are constrained in pursuing waged employment.DocumentA Gender-analytical Perspective on Trade and Sustainable Development
United Nations, 1999Gender discrimination, exacerbates the tendency of trade to increase overall inequality within and between nations. Gender discrimination also affects the price and income trends, which are unfavourable to development in primary commodities and in basic manufactured goods.DocumentGlobalisation and Gender
Chicago Journals, 2001Whilst feminist political economists and others have recognised the significance of women's subordinate role in globalisation processes, the editors are concerned about the absence of a focus on women's centrality within social movements that are in opposition to globalisation.DocumentWomen's Labour and Economic Globalisation: a Participatory Workshop Created by Alternative Women in Development (Alt-WID)
Oxfam, 2000Alt-WID, a working group of feminist educators and activists formed in 1993, focuses on the relationship between global macro-economic polices and our local communities. The group is particularly interested in translating ideas into popular education tools that can be used by organisers and grassroots groups.DocumentWorld Survey on the Role of Women in Development: Globalisation, Gender and Work
United Nations, 1999This global survey examines the impact of current trends and policies on the overall social and economic situation of women. It starts by describing the main economic trends produced by globalisation: trade liberalisation; increased globalised production due to direct investment of multinational corporations; and financial liberalisation.DocumentTrade, gender and poverty
United Nations Development Programme, 2001Assumptions about the benefits of trade tend to be based on gender-blind mainstream trade theories, which ignore the social relations that mediate the implementation of trade policies. This paper first examines the relationship between gender and poverty.