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Gender Inequality In Vietnam

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Globalization is a trend that affecting the patterns of work and increase the social divisions. There are many different definitions of globalization defined by academics, but globalization has no unified definition, it can generally understand as the integration of world economies by the less influences of nation boundaries to trade and invest in foreign countries. Labor and capital are no longer limited by countries barriers. This article would focus on how gender inequality is affected by changing pattern of work due to globalization. With the example of two countries, it would conduct that the gender inequality become more serious because of the changing patterns of work.

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It is said that the impact of globalization in Vietnam had a significant increase in exports and positive effect on employment, but negative effect on imports because of the competition brought by foreign competition (Jenkins 2014). Vietnam showed how globalization influenced their own economy to integrate worldwide. The unemployment rate was approximated 6% in last 15 years and the GDP of Vietnam was approximated 170 billion U.S. dollars. And there is a large proportion that women in Vietnam are participated in workforce, there are 72 percent of women are part of the labor force. But the concentration of women workforce is higher in agriculture, 59.8% of female workforce are in agriculture sector compare to male is only 51.5% (Binh 2011). The economic scale showed that Vietnam is still a developing country and have a relatively weak economic environment compare to the developed country United …show more content…

jobs polarization which means the polarization of employment into high-skill, high-wage and low- skill, low-wage jobs occurs across the U.S. economy (Autor 2010). This concept is well explained of the development of advanced information and communication technologies that lead to U.S. employment structure. The decline of manufacturing jobs, and replaced by service economy in U.S. changed the pattern of work from standardized mass production to customization, flexible specialization, informalization and industrial homework. In addition, the mode of employment shifted to part time jobs and temporary jobs, there are 3.2 million part time jobs in U.S. in 2014. Many employments become short term relationship. These showed that the pattern of work changed in U.S. economy into two extreme

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