1999 world survey on the role of women in development : globalization, gender and work

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United Nations. Division for the Advancement of Women.

Publication Information:

New York : United Nations, [1999]

Physical Description:

xix, 76 pages ; 28 cm

General Note:

"ST/ESA/269"--T.p. verso.

"United Nations publication. Sales no. E.99.IV.8"--T.p. verso.

Language:

English

Subject Term:

Women in development.

Women -- Employment.

Women -- Economic conditions.

Added Corporate Author:

United Nations. Division for the Advancement of Women.

ISBN:

9789211302004

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Foreword	p. v
Acknowledgments	p. vi
Preface	p. vii
A. Background	p. vii
B. Gender and Development	p. vii
1. Integrating women into the development paradigm: A brief history	p. viii
2. Emergence of women in development	p. viii
3. Shift of focus from WID to GAD and gender mainstreaming	p. viii
4. Global conferences and summits of the 1990s	p. x
5. The case for making economics gender-aware	p. xii
Introduction	p. xv
A. Globalization, gender and recent labour market trends	p. xv
B. Economic role of gender in the context of globalization	p. xvi
1. Re-allocation of labour	p. xvii
2. Adjustment costs	p. xvii
3. Human capabilities	p. xviii
C. Organization of chapters	p. xix
I Globalization of Trade, Capital and Finance	p. 1
A. Trade liberalization and expansion after the Second World War	p. 2
B. Mobility of physical capital and foreign direct investment	p. 3
C. Financial liberalization and portfolio investment	p. 6
II Employment and Displacement Effects of Globalization	p. 8
A. Employment effects	p. 9
1. Manufacturing sector	p. 9
2. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and export processing zones (EPZs)	p. 9
3. Service sector	p. 10
4. Informal sector	p. 11
5. Agriculture	p. 11
B. Displacement effects	p. 12
C. Assessing the employment effects of globalization	p. 13
1. Women's position within the household	p. 13
2. Conditions of work	p. 14
3. Female-male pay differentials	p. 14
4. Occupational segregation by sex	p. 16
III Internationalization of Production, Reorganization of Work and "Flexibilization" of Labour	p. 21
A. Transformation of work	p. 21
1. Changing structure of output	p. 22
2. Drive towards flexibility and labour market liberalization	p. 22
B. The rise of flexible jobs	p. 23
1. Part-time work	p. 23
2. The changing nature of the informal sector	p. 24
3. Measuring the informal sector	p. 27
4. Home-based work	p. 27
C. Changing patterns of international labour mobility	p. 31
1. Temporary migration of "rented" workers in manufacturing assembly	p. 32
2. Domestic and entertainment sector workers	p. 34
IV Changing Patterns of Rural Women's Work	p. 37
A. Counting rural women's work	p. 37
B. Commercialization and market liberalization in agriculture	p. 37
1. Gender division of labour	p. 39
2. Privatization	p. 40
C. Responses to market economy at the household level	p. 42
1. Entrepreneurial activity	p. 42
2. Restructuring household division of labour	p. 43
3. Organization	p. 44
V Transformation of the Public Policy Environment	p. 46
A. Deflationary bias in macroeconomic policy	p. 46
1. Gender effects of economic stagnation	p. 47
2. Gender biases in social security systems	p. 47
B. Increased risk and volatility	p. 48
1. A case study of increased volatility: the Asian financial crisis	p. 48
2. The gender effects of the Asian crisis	p. 49
C. Diminishing role of the State and social protection gap	p. 50
1. Erosion of the tax base	p. 51
2. Changing patterns of public spending	p. 52
3. Macroeconomics of structural adjustment and gender	p. 53
VI Conclusion and Gender-Aware Policy Framework	p. 55
A. Summary of labour market trends	p. 55
B. Impact on gender relations	p. 56
C. Towards a gender-aware policy agenda	p. 57
1. Enhancing gender equality and mobility of labour	p. 58
2. Mitigating adjustment costs by bolstering employment security	p. 59
3. Gender inequality and investment in human resources	p. 59
4. Engendering macroeconomic policies	p. 60
5. International measures for an enabling policy environment	p. 60
References	p. 62

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