Globalization and the Female Worker

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This paper explores Maree Keating's text, 'Gender, Development and Trade', and outlines how the articles therein provide a worthwhile overview of the important challenges facing women workers in developing countries. In particular, the paper examines whether or not the collected writings adequately address three fundamental questions.

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"There can be little doubt that globalization has changed the world in fundamental ways. For one thing, it has opened up new vistas for trade and new opportunities for capitalists. At the same time, critics charge that globalization has widened the divide between rich and poor, white and black and male and female."

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