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consequences of trade and globalization for women's livelihoods in the Caribbean
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- Lyhne, Jette
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B6556 - B
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- handel, agrarische samenlevingen, globalisering, kapitalisme, economie, crisissen, Caraïbisch gebied
- Description
- Global market mechanisms have caused an economic and social crisis throughout the Caribbean. For this booklet Jette Lyhne interviewed different women: tradeswomen, banana farmers, farm workers and women who are active in women's organisations or organisations involved with trade, gender, or development. With small surveys on the situation in St. Lucia, Dominica, and Suriname. The interviews were conducted during CAFRA's General Assembly and World Trade Seminar, May 2002 in Paramaribo, Suriname.
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- 2004
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- digitaal
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- handel, economie, globalisering, statistiek
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- Notable progress on gender equality has been achieved in some areas. Women´s participation in the labour force has increased in most regions of the world: women´s education has also improved significantly: and there are signs of a narrowing of the wage gap between men and women in many countries (most of them industrialized). However, in most nations women are still at a disadvantage in terms of their role and position in the economic and political arenas. .Against this background, the forces of globalization, of which international trade is one of the most important channels, may bring additional challenges and opportunities. Questions arise as to how the costs and benefits of trade can be evenly distributed by gender, and whether trade rules and policies deepen, or, on the contrary, reduce existing gender inequalities. There is therefore a need to assess the impact of trade on gender equality in order to assist countries in designing appropriate strategies and policies to support the objective of gender equality in the context of an open multilateral trading system.
gendered connections
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- Razavi, Shahra > (ed.)
- Creator
- Pearson, Ruth > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Hart, Gillian
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B6175 - B
- Thesaurus
- globalisering, handel, ontwikkelingslanden, India, Korea, China, Mexico, Mauritius, Zuid-Afrika, bundel
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- Gender and development theory and analysis is replete with implicit assumptions that women's entry into the world of paid work will positively affect their status both in the household and in the public sphere. Until recently the debate on global factories and export production has remained focused on women's individual experience of export employment- and the extent to which this represents a positive opportunity or gross exploitation. In spite of the extended discussion of rights and citizenship in the global economy, little attention has hitherto been paid to the implications for women's entitlements arising out of their pivotal role in export sectors. Whilst many assume that women's visible and crucial presence in key economic sectors will be reflected in the ways in which social policies are formulated, there has been up to now little empirical and analytical engagement with this question. This volume, bringing together detailed commissioned studies from six developing countries, aims to fill this gap.
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