Gender and Globalization : A Comparative Perspective Between Europe and India

Contents: Preface. 1. Theorizing Gender Arrangements/Regina Becker-Schmidt, Hannover. 2. Globalization and Gender: A European Perspective/Brigitte Young, Munster. 3. New Family Patterns: Germany after Unification/Christiane Lemke, Hannover. 4. Feminist Theory of Democracy and the Dispute of Difference/ Christiane Lemke and Katrin Tons, Hannover. 5. Gender-Specific Division of Labor in Hungary since the Regime Change/Katalin Koncz, Budapest. 6. Women at the Labor Market in Russia/Elena Y. Meshcherkina, Moscow. 7. Professionalization and Gender Hierarchy/Ulrike Teubner, Darmstadt. 8. Shaping the Future of Work/Gisela Notz, Bonn. 9. Work and Gender: A European Perspective/B. Ratna Kumari, India. 10. Globalization and its Impact on Women Workers in Visakha Special Economic Zones/ B. Ratna Kumari, India. 11. Globalization and its impact on Women Students in Higher Education/ B. Ratna Kumari, India. 12. Financial Inclusion for Women Empowerment in South Asia Context/ B. Ratna Kumari, India. Index.

From the Preface: The effects of liberalization and globalization processes on income distribution and poverty within and across different social groups and countries have been the subject of intense debate and critique. Just as they did across countries, the effects of globalization have also differed across groups within countries differentiated by gender (alongside class, race and ethnicity). This is because, as pointed out above, a discrepancy exists in almost all economies between women and men’s access to resources, knowledge, ownership and control over assets, patterns of paid and unpaid work, the ability to generate income, educational patterns and political and economic power, feminist researchers and activists have repeatedly pointed to a variety of gender biases of structural adjustment and macroeconomic stabilization policies since the mid-1980s.