WGST-140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gender Role, Real Wages, Cultural Globalization

• School: Georgetown University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST-140
• Professor: Christopher Emerald

Document Summary

Accelerated and expanded flows of goods, services, people, ideas, culture, currency, and technology across national borders. Economic aspects of globalization trade, assets, production, services. Institutions (who, wto, nato, un, wb), war, terrorism. Ex: prolonged us presence in afghanistan and middle east. Countries take loans and then need to do certain things to pay them back. Filipinas migrating to us/can to work as low-wage/high-skilled health aides; inner city teachers. Structural adjustment policies encouraging free trade by world bank/imf. Government policies in the philippines encouraging migration. Women migrate disproportionately because of gendered division of labor (nurses and teachers are usually women in us and canada) Organizing for rights: women workers project in nyc and philippine women. Green: developing countries or former colonies or global south. Washington consensus =neoliberalism: free market above all else, cut social spending, cut restrictions and regulations on trade and industry.