Globalization has been an incredibly gendered issue. Maria Hengeveld states that women are viewed as an “untapped resource”. Statements such as “adolescent girls as the world’s greatest untapped resource” (Hengeveld) immediately make it a gendered issue by pointing out their gender. Ms. Hengeveld points out the paradox of large companies such as the Nike Foundation “empowering girls with the money generated through the economic exploitation of other women”. How can a company say that they are benefitting women when they are subjecting some women to sweat-shop working conditions. Additionally, SAP’s (structural adjustment policies – which are supposed to help third world countries) “require the replacement of free medical, educational, and water services with services requiring fees. This…show more content… “In Senegal, in rural areas, it is a woman’s job to go to the common pipe up to ten times a day” (In The Global South, 144). These “traditional” roles caused by Globalization are not limited to their lives in their home country. Women have had to seek jobs elsewhere to support their own families. With more women entering the work world in rich countries, such as The United States, women from third-world countries have stepped in to fill the vacant “homemaker” role. “Unlike her affluent employers, she [the third-world woman] cannot both live with her family and support it…many women [first-world women] have succeeded in tough ‘male world’ careers only by turning over the care of their children, elderly parents, and homes to women from the Third World” (Ehrenreich & Hoschild, 238). The effects of globalization on women are not limited to those who are able to leave the country, but also those who are forced to stay. For women who are employed by Maquiladora’s they face these hardships before even entering the factory. They face discrimination in the employment because “Maquiladoraas do not hire pregnant women in spite of their greater need for employment”
