1. GLOBALIZATION AND
WOMEN
ASB 211 Spring 2015

2. GLOBALIZATION
Direct and indirect sharing of technology,
ideas, behaviors, labor, services, and
material goods across and between
different peoples around the world.

3. WOMEN ARE A GLOBALLY
TRADED COMMODITY.
Labor force
Exploitation/human trafficking
Discrimination: racism, classism,
sexism

4. A NEW LABOR FORCE
Women are now recruited into industrial/factory
positions
Unskilled Labor:
1. low wages, long hours
2. no benefits
3. unable to ask for worker’s rights
4. workers forced to “rent” their own equipment (IS
THIS SLAVERY?)

8. FACTORY DAUGHTERS
50% of factory workers in Mexico are women.
70-90% of factory workers in Southern Asia are
women.
Women in industrial jobs:
Called a “secondary labor force”
Usually single, unmarried or single mothers
Experience extensive health problems
No job security
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0jG8jJCMfU

9. EXPLOITATION/HUMAN
TRAFFICKING
Human trafficking:
3rd largest illegal industry in the world,
generating $32 billion annually
20.9 million people in forced labor between
2002-2011
Sex trafficking: 2-4 million women & girls
annually
Push/pull factors
Governments and States benefit from human
trafficking!

11. LABOR AND TRAFFICKING ARE
CONNECTED
Poor labor conditions increases human trafficking
1. unemployment
2. misleading opportunities
3. women as payments for debts
Poor immigration laws and policies increase human trafficking
1. deportation to violent border cities
2. deportees separated from families
3. expensive legal immigration leads to dangerous human smuggling

12. DISCRIMINATION IN THE 21ST
CENTURY
Sexism
Women recruited into
unskilled labor or
domestic work are seen
around the world as
unequal to men,
directly or indirectly.
 Secondary labor force
 Lower wages
 Abuse
 Prejudice

13. DISCRIMINATION IN THE 21ST
CENTURY
Racism
Continued racism around
the world means that some
women are subject to even
more prejudice, aggression,
and violence.

14. DISCRIMINATION IN THE 21ST
CENTURYClassism
Women from high status and
wealthy families have:
Better health
Better conditions of living
Better jobs (or do not have to
work)
Less regulation over their bodies
Higher education and literacy rates
Healthier children