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DW India and Mexico A comparative thesis on Canadian and DW women Globally most of the poor are in the DW of which women constitute a considerable majority In contrast only a minority of the Canadian women live below the poverty line While feminization of poverty affects the women in the ID: 313818

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Topic 2: Women and Globalized Labour: Comparing Canada and

DW (India and Mexico)Slide2

A comparative thesis on Canadian and DW women:

Globally, most of the poor are in the DW, of which women constitute a considerable majority. In contrast, only a minority of the Canadian women live below the poverty line. While feminization of poverty affects the women in the DW, feminization of

labour

shapes those in Canada.

A result of NDL, poor women in DW, are tied to the commodity chain that extracts surplus/profit through nominal or no wage work.

(

Hidden Face of Globalization 9.49 min

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bhodyt4fmU

2007)

On the other

hand, in Canada

, neoliberal policies encourage extraction of profits through feminized job market. Low wage, gender inequity and declining social

programmes

impoverish the women. Slide3

Canada low-income

rate

www.statcan.ca

In 2008

, 9.4% of Canadians

are in a family whose income is below the after-tax low-income cut-offSlide4

% persons living in low-income after tax, by sex of major income earner, select years, 1976 to 2010

Note: Based on after-tax

LICOs.

Source: Statistics Canada.

Persons in low income families, annual

(CANSIM Table 202-0802). Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 2012. [ Show Data Table ]Slide5

Comparative WST framework

on Women and development :

WST & Commodity Chain:

Financial Crisis: Neoliberal deregulation policies

(Canadian Women)

Global Commodity chain (GCC)

(Third World Women)

http://becauseiamagirl.ca/page.aspx?pid=3865

31 secSlide6

Why & how Canadian women workers are disadvantaged?

Canadian neoliberal policies/practices legitimize the extraction of surplus from temps & low waged women workers

Canada:

Feminization of

labour

DW:

Feminization of Poverty

Maquiladora women - spots from the film MAQUILAPOLIS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK2KzIGb44I 4minSlide7

Concepts & arguments: Canada

Caragata

(2003):

Gendered and differential benefits

Labour

force changes

Marginalization Retrenching welfare state Commodification of social roles

Quintero-Ramirez (2002)

:

Capital mobility

Flexible work & vulnerable for firing

Feminization of

labour

.Slide8

Canadian Women: Neoliberal policies

Liberalization:

Free trade

Austerity: Financial cutbacks

Privatization: For profit services replace public services and dismantling of unions

Deregulation of: Financial procedures and securities of lending, borrowing and insurance; Flow of foreign investment

Globalization

of production & expansion of market

Slide9

Stat Can: Latest release from the

Labour

Force Survey  Friday, January 6, 2012

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-503-x/2010001/article/11387-eng.htm

Women are more likely to work part time than men

Canada:

 7 out of 10 part-time workers in 2009 were women, a proportion that has changed little over the past three decades.

In 2009, 2.2 million women worked part time, that is, fewer than 30 hours a week at their main job.

The share of women working part time rose from 23.6% in 1976 to 26.9% in 2009.

In comparison, the rate for men in 2009 was 11.9%, less than half that of women, although it more than doubled from 1976.Slide10

Canada:

5. The majority of employed women continue to work in occupations in which they have been traditionally concentrated, although the proportion has declined slowly over the past two decades.

6. In 2009, 67.0% of employed women worked in teaching, nursing and related health occupations, clerical or other administrative positions, or sales and service occupations. In contrast, 

31%

of employed men worked in these fields.

Stat Can: Latest release from the Labour Force Survey  Friday, January 6, 2012Slide11

The

Star.com

2012Slide12

2012-

Macleans.ca

Slide13

What is Feminization (Canadian Women workers)

Women

s high labour force participation and employment rates

Gendered rise of insecure or temp jobsSlide14

Capital extracts surplus:

From:

Canada: lower cost of production

Mexico: cheap

labour

- Export Promoting Zones (EPZ) or border industrialization, e.g., maquiladora

Slide15

Women in the

Core

:

In Low-Paid Employment (% Labour Force)

(Caragata: 2003)Country (year) Total Men WomenAustralia (1995) 13.8 11.8 17.7Canada (1994) 23.7 16.1 34.3France (1994) 13.3 10.6 17.4Sweden (N/A) 5.2 3.0 8.4UK (1995) 19.6 12.8 31.2US (1994) 25.0 19.6 32.5Slide16

low-wage work for men and women: selected OECD countries, 1995 to 2005

www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/.../---ed.../wcms_157253.pdf

accessed jan 2013

Women in OECD (the

Core

) countries

:1995 to 2005In Low-Paid Employment (% Labour Force)Slide17

CanadaSlide18

Canada: Average total income of women and men, 1976 to 2008

Source:

Statistics Canada, CANSIM table

202-0407

.Slide19

Canada: Employment rates (% of working age pop.)women and men, 1976 to 2011

Source:

Statistics Canada, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada www.hrsdc.gc.ca

http://www4.hrsdc.gc.ca/.3ndic.1t.4r@-eng.jsp?iid=13

acc jan 2013Slide20

Canada: Percentage of employed women and men with temporary work, by age group, 2009

Source:

Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey. Date Modified: 2011-07-26 Slide21

Unemployment rate for women and men in Canada, 1976 to 2011

Source:

Statistics Canada,

http://www4.hrsdc.gc.ca/.3ndic.1t.4r@-eng.jsp?iid=16

acc.jan 2013Slide22

gender pay gap

Comparing the average hourly wages of women and men, the ratio was 83.3% in 2008 – up from 75.7% in 1988

Sources:

Statistics Canada,

Labour

Market Activity Survey 1988, Survey of

Labour

and Income Dynamics 1993 and

Labour Force Survey, 2003 and 2008. Date Modified: 2011-07-26 Why we should still mind the wage gap Leah Eichler Special to The Globe and MailPublished Friday, Aug. 17 2012, 7:00 PM EDT the average amount for

damages

issued at the human rights tribunal level range from

$25,000 to $75,000 in Canada

. In the

United States, damages

for the same issue might amount to

millions of dollars for individuals

.

In US (2013)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/02/26/chart-the-many-jobs-that-pay-women-less-than-men

/Slide23

Canada:

women

s problems are not related to basic needs (as in poorer countries)

61 percent of single parents cannot

afford a computer (1998)

source:

Caragata

(2003) among single parents, % women are 90% (1998) 80% (2011) Stat Can (released 2012 sept.)2012: http://www.canada.com/Census+More+single+dads+heading+lone+parent+families/7265375/story.html acc. Jan 2013 - 1.2 million women (2011)Single parent mothers in poverty: 21% (2011)http://www.canadianwomen.org/facts-about-poverty (Jan 2013)Slide24

Core countries:

Indigenous women:

education and life expectancy

world's

lowest

rates

illiteracy, infant and maternal mortality and death from preventable disease

world

’s highest ratesSlide25

Framework on Women and development :

WST & Global Commodity Chain:

Financial Crisis: Neoliberal deregulation policies

(Canadian Women)

Global Commodity chain

(Third World Women)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

jUNxj0MOoqk

4.3 min

Global Value Chain: Garments and flowers (English subtitles) Slide26

Impacts of GCC on female workers in the Periphery

Wilma A. Dunaway (2001). journal of world-systems research, vii, 1, spring 2001, 2-29Slide27

Impacts of GCC (contd.)

Wilma A. Dunaway (2001). journal of world-systems research, vii, 1, spring 2001, 2-29

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V86DfIwlDmY

2.19 min WDR on

wmn

2012

Unpaid work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaCwOdNeA7k

1.20min Think EQUAL

 Slide28

Peripheral countries:

GCC explains:

Reasons why women are marginalized:

Women are treated as commodities/property by:

Traditions (

gendercide

)

Religious fundamentalism

Socio-political Status Wars and conflicts Inequality and denial of rights Market (Women in GCC) Slide29
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