GLOBALIZATION’S EFFECT ON FAMILY LIFE
Globalization is the process of international integration, generating further interdependence of economic and cultural activities. Globalization in its basic economic sense refers to the adoption of open and unrestricted trading markets (through lowering of trade barriers, removal of capital controls, and liberalization of foreign exchange restrictions). Large volumes of money movement, increased volumes of trade, changes in information technology and communication are all integral to a global world. There is also a significant movement of people from one country to another for trade and work. Such increases in the movement of goods, labor, and services have weakened national barriers and restrictions
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The values of the global culture, which are based on individualism, free market economics, and democracy and include freedom, of choice, individual rights, openness to change, and tolerance of differences are part of “western values.” For most people worldwide, what the global culture has to offer is appealing. One of the most vehement criticisms of globalization is that it threatens to create one homogeneous worldwide culture in which all children grow up wanting to be like the latest pop music star, eat Big Macs, vacation at Disney World, and wear blue jeans, and Nikes. This outcome is unlikely since most people will develop a bicultural identity that includes a local identity along with their global identity. Besides, while most young people may jump with accept globalization and its changes, there will e other who will remain out of it by joining a self-selected culture of fellow dissenters. Such groups can have a religious basis, which can result in fundamentalism or espouse clear non-religious anti-global …show more content…
On one hand, it has allowed women to become a larger part of the workforce, with opportunities for higher pay raising their self confidence and independence. Globalization has provided a power to uproot the traditional views about women that have kept women economically poor and socially exploited. The growth of the computer and technology sector has provided middle class educated women with better wages, flex-timings, and the capacity to negotiate their role and status within the household and society. On the other hand, women continue to work in poorly paid, mentally and physically unhealthy, and insecure situations. For most women, their domestic responsibilities are not alleviated. Wage gaps have not showed any significant changes in most employment sectors other than information technology. Additionally, prostitution, abuse and dowry related suicides are on the increase despite globalization and some say that the materialistic greed is one of the main
had to be pinned on Peltier. Additionally, in Butler and Robideau’s trial, the jury was able to see how the FBI evidence was fabricated but when it came to Peltier’s trial it was not seen and evidence was withheld as well as there being phony ballistics tests. Also, in Peltier’s trial, there is a masked man while in Butler and Robideau’s trial there is no masked man. This masked man shifts the blame on someone else but at the same time, Peltier is not going to tell who the murderer is so it is false and he is really the killer. The officers got their justice and did what they did to get the trial to go their way so killing someone was worth it and justified why they were on the Indian reservation in the first place.
Life on the Global Assembly Line by Babara Ehrenreich and Annette Fuentes addresses globalization, multinational corporations, international division of labor, gender concerning jobs, poor working conditions in factories, and U.S. government involvement in exploitative conditions for Third World women workers. Most exported industries are towards Third World countries. These exported industries are unsafe and in poor conditions. Production of products are broken down where fragments are sent to different parts of the world to be completed. In the Third World countries, females are responsible for working in factories and having to deal with poor working conditions and low income.
Industrialization in the United States created increased employment opportunities in factories and metropolitan regions, liberating women from conventional homemaking responsibilities. Consequently, women sought independent lives, gaining financial independence and personal expression (Source 4). Women from various racial and cultural backgrounds, particularly those from working-class neighborhoods, entered the workforce, advocating for better working conditions and fair pay. These advancements shattered preconceived notions of gender roles, laying the groundwork for future women's rights
There was less of a chance for women to have power in the workplace due to stereotypes. Each piece of evidence leads to women’s struggles being a great consequence of the Industrial
Currently, gender inequality, although less than before, still exists, for example in wage gaps. “The gender gap in paid work is narrowing, but women still do most of the domestic work and child care… all of which is low-waged labor” (Lorber, 2001, 6). Many expectations for male and female roles, especially in religious customs, continue to exist and “legitimate the social arrangements that produce inequality, justifying them as proper” (Lorber, 2021, 6). Women are somewhat encouraged to work more “feminine” jobs which is causing many women to continue working in more low-paying, domestic jobs. However, there are still many, and a growing increase in successful women working high-paying jobs, inspiring more women to do the
Moreover, this is because, “women are more likely to have a relational orientation than men” (Campos, Aquilera, Ullman, & Schetter, 2014, p. 192). Women are usually the ones that maintain the family bonds and benefit more of the closeness and support from the family. Nevertheless, women still feel more compromised of keeping the bond, and if an issue surges they are more likely to stress due to the conflict (Campos, Aquilera, Ullman, & Schetter, 2014). • Around the world, it appears familism is coming to an end. What are the economic, political and cultural implications of the changes underway in the traditional family unit?
While we talk about globalization, most of us would think of it as the process by which companies move their business beyond domestic and expand to other markets around the globe. It is supposed to increase the interconnection, to boost international economy, and to benefit all countries involved in the trade. However, the dark side of globalization is that it destroyed the life of people who lived in developing countries, particularly female workers. The effects are demonstrated in the film “Maquilapolis” and Lopez’s article. Since companies only take profit as their first concern, I believe female workers in developing countries were suffering mentally and physically from the negative effects of globalization because their problem was ignored
The 20th century saw a major increase in women’s rights, getting a step nearer to gender equality. It is defined as the act of treating men and women equally, having the same access to right and opportunities no matter the gender. Although it is not a reality in our world, we do have advanced in comparison to the last century. At the begging of the 20th century women still were considered the weak gender. Their education consisted on learning practical skills such as sewing, cooking, and using the new domestic inventions of the era; unfortunately, this “formal training offered women little advantage in the struggle for stable work at a liveable wage” (1).
Changing the way economy is setup can drastically affects the lives of its citizens. The changing in economy has hurt many of it’s working class people. Some people can 't find any jobs and they are struggling. The lack of job opportunities in the country is hurting those who are americans and immigrants that are homeless. The creation of political machines are taking over the jobs that the people need.
Today, forty percent of women are the breadwinners of the family, meaning the roles of women and men have dramatically modernized since the Industrial Revolution (Wang). With great ferocity, gender roles
Women’s responsibilities increased especially at work and war. Women, even today are discriminated because of their gender, so there is still no equality between both genders which should stop. Many women worked in the work force. According to an article, “For the first time, women
Cultural globalization is often understood as the spatial diffusion of global products. At a deeper level, cultural globalization may be seen as the contested process of internationalization of values, attitudes and beliefs. The spread of cultural practices and symbols makes the world more the same, but at the same time triggers resistance. Hence, cultural globalization while uniting the world is also seen to strengthen local cultures and is a major force behind the creation of identities. Such homogenization or differentiation can be noticed in the change of cultural practices and consumption patterns over time and space.
Globally, Gender pay gap is worse than the U.S., which is 52% of men. Due to the slow progress in pay equity, it is predicted that it will take another 118 years to close global pay equity gap. Even
Women. Women’s involvement in the working world have contributed to many items that would be missing from the world today; if they had not been allowed to work.. Women have struggled with sexism in the workplace since before they were even given the chance to try to work. They were taught from a young age that their job was to provide children, cook, and clean for their husbands, while the husband worked and provided the money. What men did not know however was that women were capable of so much more(Jewell, Hannah).
In the early 21st century, those living in the developed world encounter the effects of globalisation on a daily basis. On a most basic level, from the Internet to the food that is consumed, it is possible to instantly access a different part of the world. Globalisation has also affected lives in ways that are not instantly obvious – views, beliefs and attitudes shaped by globalisation have changed how the world is perceived. Globalisation is different in the 21st century to how it was in the 20th century, and though the most underlying difference is the rapid development of technology, there are subtle ways in which it has changed – and ways in which it has not changed at all.