The beginning of this class my focuses was on globalization and how it inspires poverty, inequality, and crime. In my blogs I took this focus and showed the relationships of these outcomes towards women, and how it effected them. As corporate capitalism spreads throughout the world, these negative effects are having a large impact on women's roles and livelihood. These roles become degrading and unhealthy as women reside in a world that undermines their ability and moral rights as human beings. We learned in class about women's roles in western manufacturing, women were in great demand for their low paying labor to compete with foreign competition. Third world nations provided this means of cheap labor by creating the necessary structure needed for foreign capital to relocate within their country, due to their weak economy that created very low regulation for labor. These poor nations offered tax incentives and little regulation on environmental and and health hazards. Those affected by this means of globalization work for close to nothing as they are usually unable to support themselves or their families due to their low income. It was hard to fight against these exploitation many of the workers were experiencing as companies threaten to move their operations elsewhere leaving an even larger burden then before. Our Western society has a large influence on the ongoing suffering that women are experiencing everyday as statics shows of the 1.3 billion of the worlds absolute poor 70% is women.() Western International politics ignores the health and financial impacts the manufacturing institutions have on women and the environment. Free trade zones and corporate compounds are established in areas with little regulation on wages, health, safety, and the environment. This allows transnational corporations and companies to exploit third world nations for their cheap labor force, especially women. In addition to the horrible working conditions and minimal if any pay, women are subject to the harsh rules and regulations of the corporate compound. These rules consist of curfews, forced overtime work without the legal compensation or sometimes even pay, restrictions on certain social behaviors, and rules against becoming sick or pregnant. As I dug deep into the problems associated with globalization towards women. I stumbled upon on a very disturbing subject, " HUMAN AND SEX TRAFFICKING." As you can see in one of my early blogs, I address the problems associated with poverty and how it contributes to the construction of the infrastructure needed to conduct illegal trafficking. For the second part of my final project I made a PowerPoint presentation on human trafficking. I hope the audience is able to gather valuable insight on this major problem and how globalization plays a major role in allowing these criminal activity's to be conducted, mainly within eastern Europe. I believe it is important when covering my topic of the effects globalization has on poverty, inequality, and crime towards women. That I address one of the most lucrative criminal acts against women.
