Processes of globalization and their impact on women's live

Abstract

I begin with a phrase by Chusa Lamarca Lapuente: globalization is no less than the extension of capitalism to a global scale. I am interested in developing three key ideas which are presented in three sections. First, the effects and defects of globalization in the lives of women, in which I propose that which has been said and is known: globalization is a process that has been driven by international organisms such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, the G-7, the World Economic Forum and the OECD. The imposed model has been more market, less State, and this process can be explained only as an extension of capitalism. Women have been the most affected by this process, which has had negative impacts on their lives, because it is they who have dealt with the shock of the retreat of the State in family well-being. In the second section, which I have named Women’s Human rights in a global era, I propose to use precisely two of the globalization processes boost national and international networks which aim to/to bolster the claim over women’s rights, the acknowledgement and the guarantee of them being respected. Finally, I suggest that gender equality is not possible if it isn’t proposed as a global action. All women’s rights must be guaranteed in these processes of capitalist-patriarchal market. For this reason, States must break the centrality of the market in order to generate social justice with a gender perspective.