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Integrating Equality: Globalization, Women's Rights, and Human Trafficking

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: This paper empirically investigates whether globalization can improve women's rights. Using panel data from 150 countries over the 1981–2008 period, I find that social globalization positively affects women's economic and social rights. When controlling for social globalization, however, economic globalization does not have any effect on women's rights. Despite the positive effect of (social) globalization on women's standing in a country, (marginalized) foreign women, proxied with inflows of human trafficking, are not beneficiaries of such “female-friendly” globalization effects.

Source: International Studies Quarterly

DOI: 10.1111/isqu.12056

Author: Seo-Young Cho

Institution: German Institute for Economic Research

Language: English

Topic: Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Reduced inequalities, Decent work and economic growth, Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2107680509