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Lesson 04: Global Perspectives
<#> Introduction: Connecting Your Learning
As you explore this lesson, keep these questions in mind:
* What factors erode the status of women during the process of
development?
* What are the key cultural barriers that impede progress?
* How do custom practices and beliefs affect the status of women?
From a more global perspective, you will examine the impact of the
development of third-world countries on women and the various
perspectives from around the world.
Readings, Resources, and Assignments
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Term Definition Example
Countermodernizaton
Anti-modernization; a social movement that either
resists modernization or promotes ways to neutralize its effects
Iranian revolution
Development
Focuses on programs that are designed to upgrade the
standard of living of the world’s poor in ways that allow them to
sustain themselves
Many nongovernmental and grassroots organizations,
UN Conference on Women
Developing Nations
Also called developing worlds; less-developed
countries with poverty-level incomes per capita
Africa, Asia, Latin
America
Globalization
The removal of barriers to increase the flow of capital
between and within nations
The United Nations addresses issues to the
equality of men and women.
<#>Focusing Your Learning
Lesson Objectives
By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
1. Describe how development in third-world countries has affected women.
2. Describe and evaluate gender perspectives from around the world.
<#>Instruction
*Objective: Development in Third-World Countries and How it
Affects Women*
In 1945, the United Nations became committed to equality for both men
and women. In the pursuit of this equality, official conferences on
women’s issues were held around the world over the next five decades.
The locations and years of those conferences are listed below:
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Mexico City in 1975
Copenhagen in 1980
Nairobi in 1985
Beijing in 1995
The most important of these conferences was the Beijing conference. This
conference was the largest gathering of women in history, and it
represented landmark developments in global understanding and
cooperation among women in the world. This conference also managed to
transcend the usual stereotypical media coverage of women’s issues and
seemed to garner genuine media interest.
How has third-world development affected women? Development in
third-world countries can have positive and negative effects for men and
women. Third-world development is most destructive to women when:
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They are denied access to technology.
Subsistence farms are sold.
Men seek work away from home.
Women’s unpaid labor is uncounted.
Trickle-down economic models are employed.
To prevent these negative effects, a model for women in developing
countries must be established. This model must incorporate the following:
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Sociological theory and global stratification
The impact of market-driven economic development
A theory practice feedback loop
Interdisciplinary work
A feminist perspective that emphasizes women’s empowerment
Sociological theory and global stratification can help those who develop
the model to understand the influence of capitalism and economic factors
that can result in the subordination of women. A market-driven economy
can also serve to disempower women if it is developed improperly. A
theory practice that has a feedback loop will gradually help to refine
the theory, which will make it more useful with time. All of the
disciplines that combine to make up the arena of social sciences have
valuable knowledge and applications that can bring something useful to
the model of women in development.
peasant woman
*Russia*
* *Russia*
* Women have lost economic and political power with the collapse of
the Soviet Union.
* Women have lost jobs and their wages have declined.
* The importance of paid work for women has declined.
* The importance of family and social order has increased.
* The number of hours worked in the home has increased.
* Feminism and women’s rights have eroded.
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women looking at things
*China*
* *China*
* Footbinding, concubinage, and child betrothal have been abolished.
* Free-choice marriages have been instituted, and women have equal
rights to divorce.
* Cultural barriers help to undermine these changes.
* The one-child only policy has reinforced the son preference.
* Women report both gains and losses in the workplace; more data is
needed.
huge crowd
*India*
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*India*
Women’s progress is eroded by strict interpretations of Hinduism.
Social reform has given women the right to inherit, vote, and divorce.
A huge gender gap remains in education, literacy, and employment.
Female neglect and HIV/AIDS are rising due to son preference and a
woman’s lack of control over sexual intercourse.
* India has a strong feminist movement that is hindered by a lack of
diversity, disagreement on a common agenda, and difficulty in
attracting poor and rural women.
women archers
*Japan*
* *Japan*
* Gender roles are highly paradoxical.
* Japanese women benefited from post-war reforms of equal pay,
improved hiring and working conditions, and access to higher education.
* Reform is hampered by Japanese gradualism, traditional views of
women, and women’s abandonment of their careers at marriage.
* Motherhood is the center of women’s social and personal identity.
* Women have high levels of power and decision making in their households.
women waiting
*Latin America*
* *Latin America*
* Machismo creates a major gender divide.
* The power of the Catholic Church explains the mixed success of
family planning, sex education, and reproductive health.
* Globalization has led to a shift from subsistence farming to
commercial farming that has hurt women.
* The feminist movement is being heard by the Latin-American governments.
* Whether class or gender is the key factor in women’s low status is
still hotly debated.
army women
*Israel*
* *Israel*
* The government continues to reinforce policies with traditional
gender roles related to religion and family.
* Religious ideology takes precedence over gender ideology.
* The egalitarian ideology of the kibbutz is eroding.
* Jewish feminism is strong but is divided by class and race.
<#> Summarizing Your Learning
The activity in this section is designed to help you evaluate your
learning of the lesson objectives. However, you are not required to
submit the answers to your instructor.
Consider the following:
1. What impact did legislation aimed at creating equality in the
workforce have on working men and women?
2. Define occupational sex segregation and identify its impact.
3. Has the development of third world countries benefitted women living
in those countries?
4. What global perspectives have brought about change for men and women
in the workforce?
<#> Assessing Your Learning
*Submit your assignment for grading.*
Complete the five-question short-answer assignment.
*Lesson 4 Short Answer
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