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A 6 page discussion of the double-edged impact of globalization on women’s issues. This paper contends that while globalization can have some positive impacts, such as the reduction of extreme poverty, it can have many more adverse impacts. One of the most concerning of these from an international standpoint is the erosion of cultural mores and norms. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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of globalization are an every increasing presence in our world. It is an impact, however, which reaches into the far recesses of history. What we are observing around
the world in regard to the contemporary impacts of globalization is a continuation of impacts which have already occurred in many areas of the world. Globalization therefore is a
progression from the past to the future. While some of the pressures which result can be positive, many others can be negative. Indigenous and traditional women have much
to gain from globalization but they also have much to lose. While globalization could lead many from the extreme levels of poverty in which they currently exist, globalization also
has the tendency to erode traditional values and mores. Two issues thus emerge which are important to international womens movements in regard to globalization. These issues are the
impacts of globalization on poverty and the impacts on traditional values and mores. While these impacts are occurring around the world, there are no better examples than what is
currently happening in Latin America. The current situation in Latin America in regard to womens issues is a situation which traces its roots
far back into history. The indigenous women of Latin America have been suppressed by a number of societal factors. These factors revolve both around their native traditions and
societal expectations, the influence on the Europeans who colonized Latin America, globalization, and the rampant development of their homelands in a manner which degrades traditional land rights and serves to
further adversely affect the rights of indigenous women. Kambel (167) notes, for example, that an indigenous womans land rights can, in fact, be integral to such aspects as a
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