Impact of Globalization on Women

GLOBALISATION AND WOMEN EDUCATION:

Globalization is the system of interaction among the countries of the world in order to develop the global economy. It is an ongoing process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a globe-spanning network of communication and execution. Globality is assessed by four factors. They are globalization of capital, globalization of markets, globalization of supply chain, and globalization of corporate mindset. Global business is facilitated by a number of factors. The more prominent among them are vast markets of developing countries, greater scope of earning in international business and formation of trading blocks. Globalization has ripple effects as reflected through its impact on women, wages, child labor and managerial practices. There are two impact of globalization- negative and positive. Negative combination is the breaking down of trade barriers or protective barriers such as tariffs and quotas. With positive integration, these countries will work on having similar or identical policies on tariffs. According to economists, there are a lot of global events connected with globalization and integration, which have brought a drastic change in the world. They are Expansion of International Trade, Technological Progress, Increasing Influence of MNCs, Power of the WTO, IMF, and WB, Greater Mobility of Human Resources across Countries, Greater Outsourcing of Business Processes to Other Countries, Civil Society etc. Civil society often refers to NGOs.
There are NGOs that support women's rights. The most striking thing about women all over the world is the high degree of discrimination meted against them. Some statistics are worth collecting in support of this statement. Out of the 1.3 billion poor people in the world, 70 percent are women, the majority of whom are illiterate with no access to basic facilities like safe drinking water. Two third of the 130 million children worldwide who are not in school are girls. Between 70-80 percent of the world’s 27 million refugees are women and children. The majority of women earn, on average, about three fourth of the pay of males for the same work. Worldwide, the primary victim in today’s armed conflicts is civilian women who are sexually abused by soldiers. In news papers, daily we read stories about bride burning, dowry harassment and rap of teenaged girls.
There is positive development as well as negative impacts of globalization on women. Positive developments are that globalization has enhanced employment opportunity for the women, employment opportunities has helped ease the burden of poverty, the creation of new associations of women and strengthening of their networks to offer mutual support and resources. Negative aspects are that majority of female employee work under inferior working conditions, and often on shifts with serious implications on their social and physical health, workplace harassment is on the rise, sex tourism and sex trafficking are on the rise. Precisely such a terrible thing is taking place in India today on account of the unstoppable and unchangeable process of Globalization. We have to make National Policy for the empowerment of women.The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.