A ROUGH DRAFT SUBMITTED FOR THE PARTIAL

FULFILLMENT OF COURSE LAW RELATING TO WOMAN AND

CHILD

CNLU, PATNA
NYAYA NAGAR, MITHAPUR, PATNA

Submitted to -
Ms. Sugandha and Mr. Vijayant Sinha
FACULTY - LAW RELATING TO WOMAN AND CHILD

SUBMITTED BY -
ARIHANT SINGH 1718,
BA-LLB
INTRODUCTION
Gender structures our existence in the most intimate of ways. How we perform gender is
inseparable from our personhood, our individuality, and also our interactions with others in
our families, classrooms, work-places, and cultures. There is a gender dimension in every
conceivable area whether in diplomacy or social movements, international courts or terrorist
groups, there are norms of gender at work. In addition to saturating politics and war, gender
also stratifies power in the global economy. Gender matters in two kinds of economic
activity- the formal and informal.1

Discussions about the economic and social condition of women across countries in recent
years have often included topics related to the internationalization of economic activity. These
discussions have dealt with a variety of processes such as the growing employment of women
in industrial production, the effects of multinational investment on women's work, the
participation of female labor in the unregulated sector of the economy, and the intensification
of domestic work as the debt crisis and structural adjustment policies in many Third World
countries have lowered real wages and living standards for a large proportion of the
population. Yet, much remains to be done, particularly in terms of thinking through the
significance of these processes for designing policies and political action that incorporate
gender as a fundamental dimension.

The emerging world economy and rapid advances in information and communications
technology have raised production, trade, capital flows and e-commerce to hitherto unknown
levels. But at the same time they have widened economic and social inequalities between and
within countries, exacerbated human vulnerabilities and insecurities and changed the nature of
jobs and work. A major economic crisis has swept through many parts of the world in recent
years and thrust millions of people into the ranks of the unemployed and the poor. A
disproportionate number of these are women.

OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

To describe the nature of gender in the global economy
To analyse and highlight the role of women’s involvement in the globalized economy.
HYPOTHESIS

This project will analyse gender issues within the context of an increasingly globalized
economy. Its focus is the argument that, as this globalization proceeds, gender issues will
necessarily take this increasingly international perspective. It requires a continuous effort to
analyze the significance of global economic transformation for different social groups (women)
and to understand its implication for policy, action and future change.

TENTATIVE CHAPTERISATION

1. Introduction
2. Feminization of the international labor force
3. Analysis of women in the formal and informal sector
4. Sexual division of labour The comparative advantage of women’s disadvantage
5. Case study - Neo-slavery and care labour in Asia…
6. Economic crises and women's work. Recent analysis (with special focus on India during
the pandemic)
7. Conclusion