Globalization refers to the increasing pace and penetrations of movements of capital, production, and people across boundaries of many kinds and on a global basis (Acker, 2014, p.18). Furthermore, in the study of Gender and Globalization, there are intersectionality relations:
Our analysis of the gendered effects of globalization includes two principal dimensions. The first has to do with economic resources and opportunities. The second concerns the spread of norms and ideas regarding the place of women in social, political, and economic life ( Gray et, al., 2006, p. 295).
1. Listen to the Our Voices Podcast “Decolonizing the Global Economy.” Access from :
Globalization can be described as the linkage of economic, political, social, and cultural networks across the world. The interconnection of these networks characterizes the roles in which males and females undertake within a given society or country. In the podcast we learned how the structure of the global economy enables one to understand:
Why it is that some parts of the world have so much more wealth and power than others.
We are connected on a planetary scale. The same process that has allowed the coronavirus pandemic to spread so far so quickly –globalisation – also means that all our resources, our infrastructure, our food, energy, clothing, our electronic devices, almost everything human-made that we see around us, contains some component that someone from somewhere else has worked on. Our economy is global. It affects not only every human but also every animal, our climate, and every aspect of our environment. Yet most media coverage of the economy focuses on the national level, and when problems like global inequality, poverty, or underdevelopment do get attention, they are often treated as the result of natural forces, or as resulting from corruption or bad governance in developing countries ( Our Voices podcast, 2020).
Globalization is further explained as “. . . .the latest stage of Capitalism in the evolution of the modern world system with economic, political, and cultural /ideological dimensions and features” (Moghadam, 2020, p. 2). How we view ourselves, whether as males, females, gay, transgendered all comes as a result of our understanding of global politics. “ . . . Gender is produced by and productive of the ways in which we understand and perform global politics (Shepherd, 2015, p. 26).
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1. Questions for discussion-weave together in a narrative or essay format responses that reflect how this new knowledge impacts your thoughts and perspectives:
From the podcast:
1.What does the field of post-development mean?
2.What are some alternatives to development?
3.How do we challenge the fundamentals of inequality within?
2. Citing the work of Gray et, al., (2000). From the following three (3) questions select two (2) and provide analytical responses which reflect your understanding of the topic under discussion. IN OTHER WORDS, INCLUDE YOUR VOICE IN THE ANALYTICAL RESPONSES TO THE QUESTIONS.
1. Provide at least three examples to explain how globalization is “gendered.”
2. How are Gendered images and ideologies of femininity and masculinity used in various sectors of international capital to construct the stereotype of the desired worker with the preferred behavior characteristics?
