Essays about: "globalisation and women"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words globalisation and women.

1. 1. Trading gender equality? : Examining the impact of exposure to gender equality through trade on the gender wage gap: A European multi-country approach

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Rebecca Rieschel; [2023]
   Keywords : Gender wage gap; gender economics; gender equality; international trade;

   Abstract : The analysis studies the spill-over effect of the gender equality of the trading partner on the gender wage gap. The aim is to contribute to the gender aspect of the literature studying the effect of globalisation on wage inequality, and especially to the very limited literature on the spill-over effect of the trading partner. READ MORE

3. 2. The Filipino-American Care Chain : Gender, Transnational Migration and the Globalisation of Care

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

   Author : Thydén Nanna; [2019]
   Keywords : Care chains; domestic workers; care drain; remittances; transnational families; Philippines; United States;

   Abstract : By caring for children, the elders and the ill, care workers are fundamental for the global economy and for peoples’ well-being. As confirmed in this thesis, the majority of domestic workers are migrant women. READ MORE

4. 3. Feminist movements as agents of political change : An analysis of feminist social movements’ impact onlabour rights legislation in Morocco

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Cajsa Hemström; [2019]
   Keywords : feminist movements; structural adjustment; Morocco; labour rights;

   Abstract : Inspired by the contestatory debate over whether globalisation has brought more benefits or disadvantages, and feminist movements all over the world gaining more agency and leverage every day, this paper is an attempt to connect said components. Morocco is a case where both are highly present. READ MORE

5. 4. “I’m here because I am a Muslim” : A combined content- discourse analysis on the Swedish media coverage of Muslim-Christian relations in contemporary Egypt.

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/JMK

   Author : Ida Vanhainen; [2018]
   Keywords : Media discourse; CDA; Content analysis; Orientalism; Muslim-Christian relations; Copts; Egypt.;

   Abstract : The media plays an important role in forming public opinion, in broad terms media reporting can be described a way of constructing meanings to social events and actions, both fixed and dynamic ones. An in-depth study of the media discourse will therefore allow us, not only to understand the conditions of modern media, but also complex social practises of meaning making. READ MORE

6. 5. “Like Machines” in Thailand’s Seafood Industry

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Matilda Dahlquist; [2017]
   Keywords : globalisation; gender; feminism; productive and reproductive work; social reproduction; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This thesis seeks to answer the research question: How can we understand the experiences of Burmese female migrants working in Thailand’s seafood-industry through the lens of interdependent reproductive, productive and virtual economies? The purpose is to increase understanding of Burmese female migrants’ experiences, illustrating how these are influenced by complex social relations and power-dynamics. In doing so, this thesis aims to contribute to understanding of globalisation by revealing its uneven and oppressive material-symbolic effects. READ MORE