Women's Economic Rights Around the World

Picking up where I left off in the last episode, I continue to discuss some of my own research, utilizing an inter-relational approach to interpreting high turnover rates in maquiladora industry, which considers economic, social, and cultural factors that work to keep women from pursuing their economic rights.

Castillo, Rafael (2015) “Murdered in México State: The Silent Epidemic of Women Killings in México”. Available at: https://news.vice.com/article/murdered-in-mexico-state-the-silent-epidemic-of-women-killings-in-méxico

Domínguez, E., Icaza, R., Quintero, C., López, S., & Stenman, Å. (2010). Women Workers in the Maquiladoras and the Debate on Global Labor Standards. Feminist Economics, 16(4), 185–209. https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2010.530603

Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). 2019. Gender Equality Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean. Indicator: "People without incomes of their own." Accessed April 28, 2021. https://oig.cepal.org/en/indicators/people-without-incomes-their-own

Fussell, E. (2000). Making Labor Flexible: The Recomposition of Tijuana’s Maquiladora Female Labor Force. Feminist Economics, 6(3), 59–79. https://doi.org/10.1080/135457000750020137

Latinobarómetro Corporation. 2018. Latinobarómetro Online Data Analysis 1995 - 2018. Accessed April 28, 2021. https://www.latinobarometro.org/latOnline.jsp

Maquila Solidarity Network. Workers in crisis in the garment industry in Mexico: a conversation with the Worker Support Centre | Maquila Solidarity Network. (2021, March 1). https://www.maquilasolidarity.org/en/workers-crisis-garment-industry-mexico-conversation-worker-support-centre.

Marx, S. (2020). Wage and Gender-Based Violence (pp. 1–8). FEMNET e.V. Retrieved from file:///C:/Users/17025/Downloads/wages_and_GBV_FEMNET_position_paper.pdf

Pantaleo, K. (2010). Gendered Violence: An Analysis of the Maquiladora Murders. International Criminal Justice Review, 20(4), 349–365. https://doi.org/10.1177/1057567710380914

Secretaría de Gobernación (SEGOB) [Secretary of Government], Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres (INMUJERES) [National Institute of Women] and UN Women, La Violencia Feminicida en México, Aproximaciones y Tendencias 1985-2014 [Femicide Violence in México, Approximations and Trends] (April 2016) [hereinafter SEGOB Report], page 10.

Taylor, G. (2010). The Abject Bodies of the Maquiladora Female Workers on a Globalized Border. Race, Gender & Class, 17(3/4), 349–363.

Weissman, Deborah M. 2005. ‘‘The Political Economy of Violence: Towards an Understanding of Gender-Based Murders of Ciudad Juarez.’’ North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation 30(4): 795–866.

This episode will go over economic trends in Central America between 1997 and 2006, focusing on the economic achievements and obstacles of women in the region, the recomposition of the Tijuana maquiladora female labor force, and reviewing several arguments about the exploitive or empowering work for women in the maquila sector.

Gender Equality Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean. (2020, October 11). Interrelationship of the autonomies. Gender Equality Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean. https://oig.cepal.org/en/autonomies/interrelationship-autonomies.

Goldín, L. R. (2011). LABOR TURNOVER AMONG MAQUILADORA WORKERS OF HIGHLAND GUATEMALA: Resistance and semiproletarianization in global capitalism.Latin American Research Review, 46(3), 133-156. https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2011.0043

Fussell, E. (2000). Making Labor Flexible: The Recomposition of Tijuana’s Maquiladora Female Labor Force. Feminist Economics, 6(3), 59–79. https://doi.org/10.1080/135457000750020137

Kabeer, Naila. 2004. ‘‘Globalization, Labor Standards, and Women’s Rights: Dilemmas of Collective (In)Action in an Interdependent World.’’ Feminist Economics 10(1): 3–35.

“World Bank. 2012. A Gender (R)evolution in the Making? Expanding Women's Economic Opportunities in Central America : A Decade in Review. Washington, DC. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/12468License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”

This episode will focus on the Central American region of the world, discussing the effects that the 2008 global financial crisis had on women's workers, how women are increasingly turning to informal employment and the repercussions associated with this, and the benefits and costs of working in the maquiladora industry. 

Biles, James J. "Informal Work and Livelihoods in Mexico: Getting by Or Getting Ahead?" The Professional Geographer, vol. 60, no. 4, 2008, pp. 541-555.

Domínguez, Edmé, et al. "Women Workers in the Maquiladoras and the Debate on Global Labor Standards." Feminist Economics, vol. 16, no. 4, 2010, pp. 185-209.

Espino, Alma. "Gender Dimensions of the Global Economic and Financial Crisis in Central America and the Dominican Republic." Feminist Economics, vol. 19, no. 3, 2013, pp. 267-288.

For this episode, we are evaluating East vs West German ideals on women’s economic inclusion after WWII, the use of microcredit in South Africa, and the relation between globalization and women’s economic rights and the occurrence of forced labor.

Campa, Pamela, and Michel Serafinelli. "Politico-Economic Regimes and Attitudes: Female Workers Under State Socialism." The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 101, no. 2, 2019, pp. 233-248.

Kim, Julia C., et al. "Understanding the Impact of a Microfinance-Based Intervention on Women’s Empowerment and the Reduction of Intimate Partner Violence in South Africa." American Journal of Public Health (1971), vol. 97, no. 10, 2007, pp. 1794-1802.

Neumayer, Eric, and Indra de Soysa. "Globalisation, Women's Economic Rights and Forced Labour." World Economy, vol. 30, no. 10, 2007, pp. 1510-1535.

For this episode, we will be going over different academic articles that shed light on the ways that women are economically disadvantaged around the world. These points will lead us to the argument that women's economic rights are an important part of human rights and deserved to be discussed more in the human rights debate.

Alaei, Kamiar, et al. “Cross-Country Analysis of Correlation between Protection of Women's Economic and Social Rights, Health Improvement and Sustainable development.” BMJ Open, British Medical Journal Publishing Group, 1 June 2019, bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/6/e021350.

Chatfield, Sara. "Married Women's Economic Rights Reform in State Legislatures and Courts, 1839–1920." Studies in American Political Development, vol. 32, no. 2, 2018, pp. 236-256. ProQuest, https://unr.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.unr.idm.oclc.org/docview/2139189574?accountid=452, doi:http://dx.doi.org.unr.idm.oclc.org/10.1017/S0898588X18000147.

Cook, Sarah, and Xiao-yuan Dong. “Harsh Choices: Chinese Women's Paid Work and Unpaid Care Responsibilities under Economic Reform.” Development and Change, vol. 42, no. 4, 2011, pp. 947–965., doi:10.1111/j.1467-7660.2011.01721.x.

Đurić Kuzmanović, Tatjana, and Ana Pajvančić-Cizelj. “Economic Violence against Women: Testimonies from the Women’s Court in Sarajevo.” European Journal of Women’s Studies, vol. 27, no. 1, Feb. 2020, pp. 25–40, doi:10.1177/1350506818802425.

Hallward-Driemeier, Mary, and Ousman Gajigo. “Strengthening Economic Rights and Women’s Occupational Choice: The Impact of Reforming Ethiopia’s Family Law.” World Development, vol. 70, 2015, pp. 260–273., doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.01.008.

Geddes, Rick, Dean Lueck, and Sharon Tennyson. "Human Capital Accumulation and the Expansion of Women’s Economic Rights." The Journal of Law & Economics, vol. 55, no. 4, 2012, pp. 839-867.

Pantaleo, Katherine. “Gendered Violence: An Analysis of the Maquiladora Murders.” International Criminal Justice Review, vol. 20, no. 4, Dec. 2010, pp. 349–365, doi:10.1177/1057567710380914.

Taylor, Guadalupe. “The Abject Bodies of the Maquiladora Female Workers on a Globalized Border.” Race, Gender & Class, vol. 17, no. 3/4, 2010, pp. 349–363. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41674772.