Can Globalisation’s Gender Effects be Changed?
Gender analysis is important for understanding that trade liberalization has different effects on women’s and men’s employment and working conditions and on women’s unpaid labour. Even the World Bank promoted the view that economic globalisation and its neo-liberal policies have negative impacts on social welfare and social services such as health and education (World Bank, 2001). Governments’ reductions in subsidies to social services force an increasing number of women to provide unpaid work. However, World Bank justify its focus on gender issues by the fact that “gender inequality at home and in the market is also believed to result in women’s inability to respond effectively to incentives to increase their productivity” (Bell with Brambilla, 2002: 4). Also, the UN Report on the Role of Women in Development concludes that “globalisation has given rise to ambiguous and at time contradictory effects on gender equality” and recommends that national governments make their macroeconomic
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