WGS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: International Monetary Fund

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Women’s and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS 101
• Professor: Sarah Miraglia

Document Summary

20% of the land owners are women. Most women are denied access to education. For every 2 hours men spend doing work at home, women spend 4. About 54% of kids that do not attend to school are women. Men have more opportunities than women around the world. Global inequality today is premised on colonialism. The extraction of land, labor & resources from global south to global north. The consequences of western ideals of gender grafted onto colonial nations. Colonialism came to an end after wwii. The disadvantage of colonialism hampered the pursuit of freedom and independence: colonial neglect of economic, political, social systems. Impacted their ability to integrate into an emerging global economy. Efforts to avoid wwii culminated in a meeting of western academics & policy makers in. A meeting to establish frameworks for a globally cooperative system. Established: world bank made development loans. International monetary fund regulated currency and finance: world trade organization regulated trade.