Assignment task: Over the last several decades, export led industrialization and Structural Adjustment Policies (SAP's) in the developing world have had tremendous implications for women's work.
1. Discuss the ways that SAP's contributed to the rise of women working in export-oriented jobs in the developing world.
2. What are some of the contradictory effects that transnational industries have had on women in terms of access to resources such as education and income, employment opportunities, and identity formation?
3. What role do global consumption patterns have on women's future employment in transnational industries?